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On the Bleeding Edge

March 21, 2017
By fudge2cake PLATINUM, Hopkins, Minnesota
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Aces have their bleeding edges--
Too new, too cool
Too bold for school
So they’re playing
With their grandaddy’s poker face,
New tricks spinning cyclones
From shiny skyscrapers--
That jack ain’t ever coming back.

© Tracy A., Scarsdale, NY

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