Why Gambling Is Spiritual
after Gary Snyder
When human beings
gamble
the
spirits like to watch.
From the spirit world
they laugh
at
the winners because winning is a sickness.
They say only losers
feel grief.
Only the loser can go
home with nothing
& this is a very holy
thing
to do.
Rochester
16
November 1990
[Published in Grasslands.
© 1994 by Jim
Cohn.]
