PoeticJustice&LuckyLady: prev post (Ballad of MINE)
>The term "waitin for the flop" In Vegas, the biggest
card game, and the one played in the World Poker
Tournament, is called Texas Holdem. You are all dealt
2 down cards, bet, and then wait for the "flop" where
the dealer flops 5 cards up in the middle of the table,
sometimes all at once, or in some versions one at a time.
All players then use those up cards in their respective hands.
As you can imagine, the "flop" is an exciting moment, with big
money on the table. The flop cards, the ones face up on the
table, change everyone's hand. So you may want to read it
again,with minor editing changes(since it was first written in
a hurry) but it is best read, with the tune by Dylan, running through your head<
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Sabrina, and the Golden Jack of Hearts
Inspired by this Thread and the song "Lilly, Rosemarie&The Jack of
Hearts" (Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks)
There was money on the table,
in the little shop,
Turner, Guido, and the sec boys,
waitin for the flop
The whisky was a flowin,
staining all the cards
You could say these boys,
had been playin hard
Turner with his cell-phone,
calculater and a big hand,
Sabrina looking over his shoulder,
her pretty eyes tired and bland,
Guido had gold dust on his fingers,
and a parachute on his back,
The sec boys with loaded guns,
eyeing the greasy deck,
Dealer laid them out
full of aces and faces;
Guido looked about,
he knew there would be plenty of raises.
The sec boys showed a pink slip,
and little Sabrina gasped,
She knew this hand
would be Big Turners Last
She reached into the bosom
of her golden gown,
Pulled out some nuggets
and laid them all down,
The crowd outside the door
were all raising hell,
For the outcome of this game
could make their wallets swell.
Sabrina went to the door,
and she loudly cried,
These sec boys are angry,
their guns are 45's
And there's only one card,
that will save us all
Just hope we got enough,
to stand their bluff and call
The card had come to Sabrina,
in a wild and strange dream
At first the image scared her,
and she woke up in a scream,
A Golden Jack of Hearts,
that first struck her with fear
Held close by a foreign man
named Behre Dolbear
She slid to the table,
the card pictured in her head,
Not next to poor Guido,
but the sec boys instead,
The gaslight shown down,
on her golden breast
And the sec boys were blinded ,
in that magical instant
Somehow in the flash,
the cards all seemed to change
The sec boys stood up,
all in a rage
Turner reached out,
to pull in the pot,
Sabrina's eyes teared,
It was the Golden, Jack of Hearts
The crowd outside the door,
who were hanging by a thread
Shouted all as one
like they had been raised from the dead
It was almost too much,
more than they could bear,
As in Strode the man in the dream,
Gunslinger, Behre Dolbear
He looked at the table
and put his guns down
Turned to Turner saying
"There's a new Sheriff in Town,
I'm taking some nuggets
just that there is my part,
for bringing you all,
The Golden, Jack of Hearts" |
