Playing your cards wisely ineffably comes best
from the strategy you’re usually left with; there
are very few prisoners-only-of-conscience who
dream for preservation of dignity in the game -
it means nothing t' be open and honest where
th' flame consumes all equally, except stakes;
and that’s the cash value that makes risking it
a ‘lay down misère’ t’ understanding jeopardy
Thus we leave our seat before stacked antes
animate behaviours wracked with torturously
reconfigured expectations of ‘faux’ grandeur -
who gives a hoot f’ ‘credibility’ measured only
in terms th' biggest pile’s reasoned into being;
& seeing reality as it is redeems your leaving
© 16 April 2018, I. D. Carswell
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