Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Poet and the Poker Table


A pretty good illustration of why I don't play poker anymore, from a profile of Joel Dias-Porter, a performance poet turned Atlantic City grinder:

“What’s the joy you get from poker?”


“The same as I get from chess or Scrabble—that you outsmarted your opponent.”


Intelligence not in the service of love is useless at best, and at worst destructive.

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