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May 2016
Addiction experts claim gambling is so difficult to break because no one knows for sure what will happen.
You see, ****** always gets you high and alcohol always gets you drunk, but nothing is absolute when you roll the dice.

So I'm curious.
Do you feel the euphoria of uncertainty?

I'm sure, at least once, your heart skipped a beat when someone yelled, "head or tails".

And I suppose you could say Lady Luck is my vice.

There's a game where you sit across from another person and tell them things you're afraid to say out loud.
But first, look at them.
Make sure they have pain in their past and fear in their future.
It's the only way they might understand.

The rules will be cloudy at first but you'll learn the Queen of Hearts is wild and she has all the Aces up her sleeve.
I just wish she would keep in mind what is lost when much is won.

Did I mention to keep your cards close?

And I promised myself to stop putting her in metaphors but here she is holding my emotional availability at gunpoint.
Well spin the barrel and pull the trigger darling because I'm no longer scared of how they play roulette in Russia.

Guess I have you to thank for making me bulletproof.

But it was worth stepping into your line of fire just to give back your letters.
These crossed T's and dotted I's wreak of your ******* carelessness.

I promised myself to stop putting her in metaphors.
So I'll find someone else to gamble with.

She'll tell me the things she's afraid to say out loud.
Like how she's tired of feeling the light going down around her.
So stay.
And we'll run east chasing sunrises.

Gambling addicts aren't so crazy.
We're just scared people who believe.
kyle chapman
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kyle chapman  Omaha
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