Sunday, September 22, 2013

A Dead Man's Hand

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
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 nave
With two sable eights keening a funeral hymn,
A deuce of spades to dig a generation’s grave.

 

7 September 2013

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