GAME OF LUCK Friday evening, your pockets are well-stocked and you feel: today you will get lucky! You enter the casino. … It starts good, you win the first game, also the next one and then another. Yes today is your lucky day! … You won an acceptable sum, you could stop now, but it goes so well that you continue. You put your luck to the test. … But luck abandons you and you loose turn after turn. But you don't stop, you want to you only once more. ... And really things look up again. You wind your chance, before you finally break in. In the end hopelessly lost! … Your pockets are empty now. Late at night you come home, drunk, tiered, depressed, desperate. … You are look forward to your warm bed, your wife's arms, who has forgiven you so often. Why not also this time? … You startle, your bed is cold and empty like your pockets. She is gone and you realise, you gambled your luck away! © Michelle Klemm