Weekends were hard
When he couldn’t get a free room
At the casino hotel
Like he could on the weekdays
He went on poker binges
Saturday and Sunday
Thirty-six hour sessions
If he had the stamina
Sometimes sleeping in his clunker
In the parking garage
The reward points from the long sessions
Providing free meals
Most people at the table
Had no idea
He did three tours
In the sandbox
And this was all he had
To come home to.
When he couldn’t get a free room
At the casino hotel
Like he could on the weekdays
He went on poker binges
Saturday and Sunday
Thirty-six hour sessions
If he had the stamina
Sometimes sleeping in his clunker
In the parking garage
The reward points from the long sessions
Providing free meals
Most people at the table
Had no idea
He did three tours
In the sandbox
And this was all he had
To come home to.
James P. Wagner (Ishwa) is a publisher for Local Gems Press, National Beat Poet Laureate Emeritus and editor of more than 120 poetry anthologies. We own and operates the Dog-Eared Bards Book Shop in New York.
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