 | Did you know that Emmett Lee Dickinson (Emily Dickinson's third cousin, twice removed -- at her request) invented Powerball Lottery? The first jackpot -- way back in the mid-1880s -- was a whopping $63.00! Currently, the jackpot for this Wednesday night will be a record-setting 1.3 billion dollars (give or take a few million)! Dickinson, of course, dreamed of winning that first jackpot that topped $60.00, and he wrote a poem entitled "Let me not mar that perfect Dream (below on the left). |
We're sure that it would be almost incomprehensible to Dickinson to imagine winning over one billion dollars!
By the way, his poem inspired his third cousin Emily to write a poem with the same opening line, "Let me not mar that perfect Dream" (below on the right).
By the way, his poem inspired his third cousin Emily to write a poem with the same opening line, "Let me not mar that perfect Dream" (below on the right).
| By Emmett Lee Dickinson: Let me not mar that perfect Dream I’ll buy a Lotto chance And if I win come Wednesday Night I’ll have to change my pants! Not till we know the Powerball list The Garment of Surprise I’ll dream my timid Dream some more At home – my Paradise. | By Emily Dickinson: Let me not mar that perfect Dream By an Auroral stain But so adjust my daily Night That it will come again. Not when we know, the Power accosts -- The Garment of Surprise Was all our timid Mother wore At Home — in Paradise. |
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