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after the

workaday crawl

we mend our

connections, living,

playing cards

Johnny

is always here

at the bar,

we've met

countless times,

our wives tending

to our lives at home.

we sit for days on

end, i don't tire.

not like how the job

tires.

our eyes often meet,

mid-game, our gazes

never for our cards,

each other.

i don't

play cards

at home

or with the

others.

Johnny-

he smiles

and says

he's got it

places his

five cards

down.

a King of spades

a Jack, a

10, 9, 8

and i have

a Queen

of diamonds

and four

aces.