Playing Strip Poker with Tiresias

Playing Strip Poker with Tiresias

I claw my way into
the cage where he sits
a forgotten lion
waiting to
be tamed.
“What do you say,
old man-- is there
room for
one more? “
“Pass the whiskey,
and my hat.”
I do as he says,
and wait for daylight.
I have come a long
way to see
nothing.
.

by Jayne Lyn Stahl

10/05/09