Some Were Filled with Jelly

My roommate came home with a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts today

proving that we live in a universe

where donuts can sometimes arrive by surprise.

Eureka! I thought

feeling just as a scientist must feel when the rock turns out to be a fossil.

I know there are days when the universe seems like a bust

when it’s tempting to say, Forget about it

and toss hope out with the evening trash.

But the science is clear:

despite everything—

the landfill,

the asteroid,

the stoplight that has stopped working at a critical junction on your way to work—

the chance of donuts

is still not zero.