"And I Got to Ithaka" (poem)

And I got to Ithaka
Dude said, play your blackjack here
I asked, it's just a fucking game?
He said isn't that your fear.
He said it's really quite delightful
If I deal the hottest cards
but that isn't going to happen
as only I know where they are.

I said I didn't come to play
I'm not some goddamn toy
If you want to find a tourist
then you've got the wrong boy.
He said what's your problem
nothing will ever make much sense
it's really just a game
don't you love the suspense.

I was really getting angry
this was supposed to be the joy
but life was flipping playing cards
and this was just another ploy.
He thought it so amusing
that I believed what he said
So I got to Ithaka
but will go somewhere else instead.