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Published December 30, 2007, 12:00 AM

One man's bad luck. . .

I'd guess you've heard it said that the reason we laugh when somebody slips on a banana peel is that we're happy that it didn't happen to us. That kind of happiness may be shameful, but many of us have known it. In the following poem, the California poet, Jackson Wheeler, tells us of a similar experience.

By: By Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2004-2006

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