Playing Identity Cards
how the standard deck plays it safe / dons medieval face / kings queens jacks / a display case of crowns & coronets / spotlit / the nudie jokers & old maids shuffled off stage / how some players never rise above the matching game / pairing primary colors / shapes / never advancing beyond Go Fish / is or is not one of us / an elementary grasp of the verb to be / of soliloquy / while others lock themselves in stalemate / battlefield mirrors playing Cold War across the card-table plain / my stack’s bigger than your stack / the body count the end-all / (re)taking & (re)losing Seminary...