STRANGE ODDS

The dream
that told you of your uncle’s death
may not have been premonitive.
You may instead
have been thinking about him
and knowing his health
wasn’t first rate
might have been concerned
and imagined
having to deal
with the consequences.

You may have just had more
ghost peppers
added to your plate
than you were prepared for
and hallucinated
in s coincidentally correct way.
It could be a series of chances
stacked upon each other
that got you
creating his funeral
before the fact
to a T.

But the unerred accuracy?
The means of his exit
and the weather conditions
at the times of year?
How did you know it all?
How did you get it right?

No,
do not succumb
to superstition.
There was no precognition here
only strange odds played out.
It’s all right.
Just don’t ever dream about me, OK?