Out of every hundred people,
those who always know better:
fifty-two.
Unsure of every step:
almost all the rest.
Ready to help,
if it doesn’t take long:
forty-nine.
Always good,
because they cannot be
otherwise:
four – well, maybe five.
Able to admire without envy:
eighteen.
Led to error
by youth (which passes):
sixty, plus or minus.
Those not to be messed with:
four-and-forty.
Living in constant fear
of someone or something:
seventy-seven.
Capable of happiness:
twenty-some-odd at most.
Harmless alone,
turning savage in crowds:
more than half, for sure.
Cruel
when forced by circumstances:
it’s better not to know,
not even approximately.
Wise in hindsight:
not many more
than wise in foresight.
Getting nothing out of life
except things:
thirty
(though I would like to be
wrong).
Balled up in pain
and without a flashlight in
the dark:
eighty-three, sooner or
later.
Those who are just:
quite a few, thirty-five.
But if it takes effort to
understand:
three.
Worthy of empathy:
ninety-nine.
Mortal:
one hundred out of one
hundred –
a figure that has never
varied yet.
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