losing and winning

I bought a lottery ticket

The colorful kind that you scratch

But when I did the scratching

The pictures did not match

I was a little depressed

I turned on the TV, bored,

And then I jumped into the air

For I won an Academy Award.

I may have lost the lottery

But I won an Oscar tonight

And that is kind of surprising

Because screenplays I don’t write

Neither am I an actor

Nor do I direct or produce

But I won an Academy Award

And I laughed like a silly goose.

I wasn’t there to accept the prize

I guess that was my mistake

So I turned up my kitchen oven

And baked me a victory cake

I pulled out my acceptance speech

All my thank you’s I started to say

But I didn’t quite get it finished

Because the orchestra started to play.