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Aces Always Guilt-black

Dark dresses held above 
Wine-splattered 
Feet 

Kings and queens
Strutting around their 
Guillotines 
With clad-iron shackles 

Oops

They slip
Chains around the nobles' knees
As heads tumble 
Off the white

And every joker is laughing 
Because in solitaire
We play ourselves 
With an ace up our sleeve

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