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The Joker in a Deck of Cards

  • Writer: Lauren Gotard
    Lauren Gotard
  • Feb 2, 2024
  • 1 min read

Oh,

Jovial actor,

Round the kids’

Round table,

Why are you

Without script?

 

Cast without

Line,

The onlookers of your

Favorable twins

 

Old Sommers,

From the deck you are

Removed?

The conical comic,

With wit

Unassigned

 

Your part is

Played

Without part in

Mind

 

Why then it’s

Such a bemusing thing

That someone could sleep,

But not dance,

With the King

 

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