Dirty Deal Blues
Kevin Young
Best advice I ever heard
I learned
at the poker table:
Shut up & deal.
I keep hoping for diamonds
or a handful of hearts
& getting only clubbed. Spades
to dig an early grave.
She said she was feeling flush;
turns out it was just a bluff.
I never call them
that raised me
since I split home.
My closest kin named
No One.
And him long gone.
I learned
at the poker table:
Shut up & deal.
I keep hoping for diamonds
or a handful of hearts
& getting only clubbed. Spades
to dig an early grave.
She said she was feeling flush;
turns out it was just a bluff.
I never call them
that raised me
since I split home.
My closest kin named
No One.
And him long gone.
