<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471731" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Zero Cards, All In</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The casino aimed<br>For maimed heaven<br>And all the disciples<br>Clambered the atrium<br>Pawning breaths, <br>Capitulating the continents<br>Sealed in the impassable<br>Urns of these gamblers.<br> <br>I took rancor slugs<br>As the jazz music<br>Wander to console<br>Or divert my perdition<br>Feigning a shattered wry<br>Of a harlequin smile<br>Girdling back the pearls<br>And the sharp crystals<br>As the daggers veer<br>Swiftly as the roulette<br>And the grinning grimace<br>Of the daunted heads.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My fingers stifled<br>And macadamized<br>Sternly cliff-hanging<br>Into an abject house<br>Of defeated cards, <br>And saliently deteriorating<br>With the buckling of cold<br>Streaming down rivulets<br>In my temples<br>And cradling a basin<br>In a more vulnerable place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All in, my last card<br>And I trampled<br>Waging back, <br>Lightning-pace<br>Gone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the crunch<br>Of the rifted bones<br>Is a greater maelstrom<br>Of lambasted rapine<br>Yet I hold on to<br>These empty cards<br>And still risking the gamble</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All in.<br>The heart.<br>The valiancy.<br>The dying days.<br>The prolonged torment.<br>The quintessence of gambling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Norman+Santos">Norman Santos</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=471731" data-title="Zero Cards, All In de Norman Santos" data-description="The casino aimed For maimed heaven And all the disciples Clambered the atrium Pawning breaths, Capitulating the continents Sealed in the impassable Urns of these gamblers. I took rancor slugs As the jazz music Wander to console Or divert my per..."></div> </div> </div>

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