Wednesday, June 27, 2012
After a long hiatus and many rejections, I can finally add my second publication for 2012 to my list. Warning to the Gambler will appear in Cordite Poetry Review - Jackpot issue #39. Here's a PREVIEW. Check out the PUBLICATION of my poem at Cordite Poetry Review Editor: Samuel Wagan Watson.
Warning to the Gambler
The way in
is through thick double doors, between foyered palms, past
elderly
stewards kneading hands. Fifty-dollar notes are exchanged for
happy-go-lucky
seats, silver-dint-bar-tinkling machines. They lay down
their
cards, sit hunched into their rib cage; sink into a consciousness of
play and
battle.
In this
warning to the gambler, one sees imprisonment and little daylight.
How many gamblers have been trapped in aisled rooms littered
with cigarette ash, zoo noises, furniture oozing years of spilled gin?
How many gamblers have watched two Kings scarper into a barrel turn?
How many have seen the chips scuttle before a fall, that fraction
before a missed fortune?
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