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September, 2013
A Dead Man’s
Hand
News – Senator
plays video poker during hearings on Syria
An old man plays with video games and death,
Bored with a meeting called to fling the lives
Of youths onto the baize; he holds his breath -
And what appears? A knave, a king, some fives?
Two
sable aces there, mournful and grim,
Begin
to assemble in a crumbling naveWith two sable eights keening a funeral hymn,
A deuce of spades to dig a generation’s grave.
7
September 2013
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