Two Combinations

My first slot winning was
with 07, 14, and 76.
I collected this date
but there were complications.

Then he was high, just back
from a clifftop above a beach,
where he had druggedly decided
to attend hospital after all,
stick around, play dad.

I'd come out cesarean,
looking his eyes outer.
“How long will this last?”
I asked, fresh wriggling,
still shocked; the blood
over my chest, face, hands.

He poured a glass of blush,
lifted a shop-tool, and cut
my umbilical cord.

He drank the wine and answered
by turning the empty glass
like a rotary padlock:
right to 03, around left to 17,
right to 05... Click.

His mouth opened and he
popped some more Vicodin,
which didn't ascertain it was going,
the way of many others like it,
into anything amazing at all.