Gambling Words

Tell us, have you got, haven’t

You got, skin in the game, still

Got skin in the game, if you

Can understand—understand

Us? We wish we were alive,

Sometimes, but sometimes we see

What it costs you to keep skin,

To keep your skin in the game,

So we wanted to ask you,

Since you’re a sentient beast

Who knows what it’s like to be

Alive and afraid of harm,

If not death, beast that suffers

And sometimes savors living,

Is it worth it, do you think,

Right now, summed up, meeting us,

Can you tell us it’s worth it,

All worth it, to have some skin

To keep in the game? We want

To believe it is. We want

To have some skin in this game.