Mean Queen

We play Go Fish after school.
We play Go Fish till bedtime.
We play Go Fish till our eyes spin and our brains leak out our ears.

I look up the rules for Old Maid and it’s dead simple and also called Old Maid. I introduce it as Mean Queen which maybe has its own baggage. Mean Queen in the suit of black, the darksider soothsayer, the witch. She brooks no bullshit. She punches up. 

When we play, her sister is jailed. From behind her kabob skewer prison bars she harangues us, demands justice, while the Mean Queen passes among us like the plague.

I tend to lose.

What can I say, my queen favors me.

And I stand by my queen.