Showing posts with label game life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label game life. Show all posts

Monday, May 27, 2024

Or deal




Memories are

Pick a card, any card,

except you do not choose

Well

we all carry a card or two

up a sleeve, lain

on the table

hence playing with

A full deck 

is rare


52 weeks

shuffle like thrown-up

cards, now the 

Five of clubs

Demands your decision.


Go fish for 

another

Hand read them

like palm lines

to call or stay

this time around


Krazy 8's and wild

Jokers interrupt as 

I shuffle through

these days,

Solitaire and surprised

at the random nature 

making a game

Of dealing with it.


Painting by Juan_Gris, 'Damier et cartes à jouer'  (Checkerboard and playing cards) c. 1915, Google Art Project in Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons. 

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