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2022 Traditions Contest: Poker Night
January 27, 2022
Sitting around the worn-out dinner table
The smell of dinner still in the air
As our eyes flicker around, examining each others’ faces
As if the cards we hold are written in our eyes
The cards, beaten and battered
With its folds and wrinkles littered across the elaborate red ink
The colorful chips piled together in the center
As our fingers play around with the chips we have left
Raise 50.
I’ll call.
Dang it, I fold for this round.
We play to the death to pocket the $20 on the line
Family time?
No.
It’s game time,
Bring it.
© Laura A., Milford, CT
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Whenever my family and I linger around the dinner table after dinner, we always bring out our poker set. There's nothing that brings us together better than all four of us trying to bluff our way out of a horrible hand in cards.