Spades
Spades is a photo series and writing piece based on the popular card game Spades. As the story focuses on explaining the game, it also drives parallels to life creating poetic irony on the topic of privilege.
Joker, Joker, Deuce, Ace, is how we play
Where I’m from it’s called Spades.
You see, the King and Queen got a little power
But just when you thought you had one,
the Ace can come in and steal your book.
Now the duece may look small,
but in this game it holds a little weight,
especially compared to the other suits.
Then we get to the Big and Little Joker,
these are also spades but the biggest of the suit
Some people don’t play with them,
maybe because in order to include them,
you’d have to remove two cards from the other suits.
To some degree that would seem unfair,
But to us, it’s just a little privilege…
Spades
Created by Des Grain
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