The Penny Arcade Broker

 Marie Harris Thursday picture prompt

Paula Shene

Title: The Penny Arcade Barker


The boardwalk promenade

Heated by day under a blazing sun

Evening into the winds of change


Pretty fortune teller of cards, pick three

Every foretelling a good one, days into years 

Neath, the bangles and scarves, laid a heart 

Nestled with love laced with sorrow

Yearning for a life of reality, not a facade


Acting stilted and frozen in a puppet show

Resisting a smile or a frown, frozen in a frame

Calling the card with a twist of the wrist

Always an ace in the slide, children asked

Dearest fortune teller, a cent or two only to view

Evenings many have passed into ruin, the doll with


Broken limbs akimbo left drained and lifeless

Actress no longer just the painted marionette

Raised from the dust to put on a show

Knowing her lifeblood soon is just flakes

Accenting childhood dreams without twinkling

Reaching for the stars and racing with the moon.

~PLS/PCS~ 6,22.2023



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