I bet you
a billion dollars
and a fifteen course feast

I bet you a snake
I bet you Neptune
I bet you a foot massage with cantaloupe

I bet you the trap door in my parents basement
which I used to imagine led to a world of ghosts
who live in the ground like ants
and I still don't know where it goes, not really

I still don't know what's good for me
I still don't know what will ever help
I know I still exaggerate wildly
and have no concept of how small my problems are
if they are even problems at all
I bet you can see that and you're fed up a little

I bet someday
we'll laugh about all this

I bet you my best shoes and a weekend in Paris
and a bungalow in Madagascar

I bet you my first novel
I bet you all the blood in the left side of my body
(but I am keeping the right)

I bet you a soda next Tuesday and a cookie
I bet that in the end, when all is said
and done you will invent the Unicorn
because, I am betting, no one else knows how

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