Two spokes, four tiny nubs

inside a larger globe,

Annie versus Jack,

Jack versus Annie:

 

The trick was how to capture

the universe by bouncing

one ball at a time

and win a nickel

 

 

Annie, faster, more clever,

tricked Jack every time

into believing

he could win the game

 

And every time she swept up

the stars she had thrown

she went home

with another nickel

 

Jack’s lifelong puzzle was not

how to beat Annie at jacks

but how Annie tricked him

into playing Fifty-Two Card Pickup

 

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