Life is the game.

The three card man at the ferry stage was making a play for it, spinning his line and changing the time or the time had changed him and the cards like his hair growing thin on the top.

Queens win the euros and who knows how, but he always came out ahead.

Bread and butter man to cut a deck and skin a man and man could he cut the strip, slice it this way or sideways up or down, smiling with the face of a clown, but a killer with a will of steel.

Never saw him and that's for real, but he could have been there with his cards and his smoke and his smile and his somewhat menacing air,
Yes
I think he could have been
with the Queen
at the ferry stage in a different age
plotting to elope.