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Deal again
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Deal again |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa 
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I can keep the doubles or go for a straight yet still end up in a no-win state because nothing survives if it’s a lie and nothing escapes the great unchallenged forward march of time. And the deal again, deal again, deal dismissive of wishes and needs spews out the odd and mismatched like a ceremonial dispatch read for free just to please a perverted sense of humour. Yet there’s a pause and a moment before making the last and final call that sends me into the archives to make sense of my memory ~ and I look up now from the past with a smile of freedom at last. There’s no holding on to a bad deal unless, unless, it’s just a soul “thing” that never can cash in the winnings ~ and so, and so, and so therefore I fold! Helen / 17 August 2006 |
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Interloper
since 2000-11-06
Posts 8369Deep in the heart |
Well done! Fool, said my Muse to me, look in thy heart and write. |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Helen, dang, I love reading you! tis was griddy and to the point... yet very poetic.... There’s no holding on to a bad deal unless, unless, it’s just a soul “thing” that never can cash in the winnings ~ and so, and so, and so therefore I fold! |
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Pilgrimage Member Elite
since 2001-12-04
Posts 3945Texas, USA |
Oh, excellent! I read the title, and had to read it, because poker is my life. Well, not really, but wouldn't it be adventuresome, if it was? I like the way you stayed with your metaphor all the way through. And hey, folding is playing the hand too. Just a different way. Nan (Pilgrim variety) |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you all so much for the read and Pilgrimage, you are so right - I just never looked at it that way. LeeJ - thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed my "to the point" words. Interloper - if I can die with the words "well done" ringing in my head then I guess it would not have all been for nothing. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Helen "I look up now from the past with a smile of freedom at last." Seems like that makes the game worth it, doesn't it?  |
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