Armless BanditJust got paid and held back some. Poker machine, here I come! Got a crisp C-note to lay so stand back- I feel hot today! See the geezer pleading with machine one? Bullcrapping, backslapping son of a gun? Spent his life saving thirty-one thou which is thirty thou more than he has right now. He holds up this wall - sometimes that post- but soon he'll be a disillusioned ghost. Come on ten! Why didn't you show? It had to hit so I could crow! One Jackson's dived into the bay, but here's four more-it's time to play! Three summers before, the old doll on two Had a paid house, car, and money beaucoup. Street jive says she rents a flat in some dive and part-times at Wal-Mart at age sixty five. Works when they let her- rainy or sunny- then drops 'round here to visit her money. Shooting forty- it keeled over dead! Oh WHY did I get out of bed?. Won't give me a hand! Nothing, I say! What hair I've left has all turned grey. That young kid counting tickets from 3 just dropped in a fin and took out sixty. At work tommorrow the cub's brag to all will be his self-masterminded windfall. But in a few days, he'll come back for bear- dig in deep- swing hard- and hit only air. My last bucks reached one eighty-eight then sunk straight down just like a weight. I took a last look at the glass and swear I saw a horse's ass. If a sucker does leave (in this place they joke), Two more they recieve, 'cuz the house don't go broke. Dan Taylor Leave feedback on our message board. |