Five Card Stud
If life were a card game
there would be no
championship, no tournament
for me
I can’t bluff
I don’t have a poker face
I don’t know when to hold ’em
or when to fold ’em
No ace in the hole
No see you, no raise you
No call, no fold
spread
squeeze play
stud
suck out
tainted out
texture
tilt
tight
I’m a wild card baby
an irregular declaration
a maniac
So ante up
with your deep stack
go all in
push
I’m an exposed card
What you see is what you get. . . .
They say if you enter a poker game and look around the table and you can’t spot the fish, then YOU’RE the fish. Well…I’m the fish. Always have been. That why I stay away from poker tables.
That would be me. My whole life is an open book.
This is somehow erotic. I can’t figure it out, but I get the impression that it is…
Yes, quite right. In my mind when I wrote it–openness, rawness, exposure–in one sense, or another.