Any given day

[villafan]

We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the [censored] kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I pissed away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has ever loved me.
And lately,
I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches and marginal decisions.
So is poker.
Because in either game
life or poker
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one move at the wrong time
you don't quite make it.
One fold too much
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

In this game, we fight for that inch
In this game, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the [censored] difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go after that inch against you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for that inch
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for the inch.

That's tough poker game, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a inch chaser,
or we will die as a quitter.
That's poker guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

[danzasmack]

Poker's just a game.

[Monty Cantsin]

[ QUOTE ]
Poker's just a game.

[/ QUOTE ]

"Free time remains the reflex of the rhythm of production as something imposed heteronomously, to which the former is compulsorily held fast even in periods of weariness. The consciousness of the unfreedom of all existence, which the pressure of the demands of commerce, and thus unfreedom itself, does not allow to appear, emerges first in the intermezzo of freedom. The nostalgie du dimanche [French: Sunday nostalgia] is not homesickness for the workweek, but for the condition which is emancipated from this; Sundays are unsatisfying, not because they are observed, but because their own promise immediately represents itself at the same time as something unfulfilled; like the English one, every Sunday is too little Sunday."

- Adorno

/mc