(Please resist the urge to read this as rows in left-right sequence. It is designed to be read as columns in top-down sequence.)
I
have:
armhairs
trembles
my favorite long-sleeved
blood red dress shirt
non prescription glasses
a couple patterns folding
I
have: over in my head like
fallen behind one long congested formula
550 down in 5 little trigger fingers
2 or 3 hours 5 little white flags
I
have:
fingernails
settled in felt I have:
2 cubes of ice peeling tics and illuminations
strengthening weakening measured
unsubtleties
a 4th drink fishing
lines and espionage
small monuments shower curtains
greens reds blues unsteady focus
unstudied
yellows grays symbols weak armhairs
currency current swim keep current Jack/8, off suit
keys a new haircut 150 on big blind
a new radiator and an old cat 5 weapons
waiting 5
treasons
trembles tics
You
have:
2
bored strippers
fake nails rattling
your shoulders
1 burly wristwatch
tougher than your
moustache
checker suit bowtie
You have a permanent
laugh
You have a permanent
good time
sophisticated agitator
pusher, You have:
taken a
1.7k with
three
other sharks with
a pair of
black 9s You have:
crawled
under
my
skin
a ballpoint pen you keep
twirling clicking shuffling
a good luck charm?
You have:
the tallest stack on the
table
tornado tattoo on your
left forearm
dead green eyes
refuse to move
salty teeth
silver tongue
six feet of skin from
hair
to heel
fishing lines and
espionage and
profession of the
language
under:
heat lamps
compliments
the
precision of deception
slightly
above:
swollen bags
under eyes
growing
heartbeats
You
will not hold my blood,
You:
will grow outgunned
You will:
sear and melt and sink and become:
a peeled glacier inside of me
You
will:
become
dragged,
become you:
have called
150
to meet the blind, you are:
the only one
5
triggers drop one
at
a
time
check
to fence is:
to waltz
is:
to
play is:
to fumble is:
to cull
my derision we have:
flopped
7/8/10
2
spades
I
have:
mid pair
with a strong kick
You have:
sweat beads
long-awaited
low pair?
outs? chasers?
turn
pushers? You have:
king
of diamonds I have: thrown
bluffing power, I have: 350
a yardstick the sweat
bet
a beating hose 5 machines
endless eyes call
endlessness
he:
checks
I bet
750
go
toss
leave
you burly fuck, you
arrogant, tanning bed sitting
hair gelled greasy tooth
son of a bitch You have:
an outside strait
or a flush draw You
have:
ghosts
you are
chasing ghosts you are
feeling, turning chips
and fake tits
and dirty money and
that goddamned motherfucking
pen You have: dirt
because dirt is what made you
and dirt is where I will send you so go home
burly man, pack it up I have
money to go I have rivers I have
won
now go away go the fuck away You Have:
folded
I scrape my chips
I have:
one small victory
I have
to
throw in
my small blind
February, 2014