After steeple bells chime wedding blessings, the ritual jesters descend, tying tin cans to your honeymoon car, clanging pots with spoons raucously under your bedroom window. Lords of misrule, anti-serenaders, we’re the jokers from Poker Night – zealously single but secretly jealous of your harmony, your full house, your winning hand.

K. Roberts is a professional non-fiction writer, a published artist, and a first reader for the Canadian magazine Nunum.