Bad Luck Card
Bad Luck Card - meaning Summary
Luck and Romantic Despair
The speaker responds to unrequited love by framing it as destiny: a gypsy’s reading reveals a "bad luck card," turning personal rejection into an inescapable fate. The poem compresses despair and resignation into a few colloquial lines, mixing folk belief and wry fatalism. Repetition and plain language convey how the narrator externalizes suffering—blaming luck rather than confronting circumstances—and ends with a bleak, almost joking suggestion of self-destruction.
Read Complete AnalysesCause you don't love me Is awful, awful hard. Gypsy done showed me My bad luck card. There ain't no good left In this world for me. Gypsy done tole me - Unlucky as can be. I don't know what Po' weary me can do. Gypsy says I'd kill myself If I was you.
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