You Never Know by Ron Padgett

1. What might happen.
2. How people will behave.
3. Oh anything.

What might happen.
How people will behave.
Oh anything.

Three rules that live
In the house next door.

Along comes the big bad philosopher, 
and at their door
he hurls the might bolts
of lightning
from his brain.

The door is unimpressed.
Behind it the rules 
are chuckling.

I witness this scene
through the kitchen curtains
as I rinse the dishes.