What Happens or Not

Contributor: Suez Jacobson

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I won, but then didn’t.
It felt like last, but it wasn’t.
Those eight-minute miles, were really ten.
The blisters were real.
The chafed and raw skin.
But other things mattered.
The miles were done.
A typo, a process, an early / late start.
It’s all in the mix of what happens or not.
We have little control.
Yet we go forward.
What is, is.
And maybe what’s not
Is what ought.


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College professor of economics who has been trying to break loose from her academic training and refereed journal writings for years. There's not much time left.