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The Player

by Stephen Gospage

By day he played the markets;

At night he played the fool.

In youth he would play truant,

To get away from school.

 

In common with those round him,

In life he played a part:

A tragic, gilded aesthete

Who suffered for his art,

 

The tough, self-made financier,

Who played for all they’re worth

The hapless types endowed with

A silver spoon from birth,

 

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