Roll the Dice by Charles Bukowski (poetry reading)

Buk is talking about "delayed gratification" the motivation most parents try to instil into their children. Do your homework now because it will bring greater rewards later in life. Why Buk calls this "Roll the Dice" seems an inconsistency. Maybe its because there’s no real certainty that work will bring rewards. The most pithy remark on gambling I have heard comes from Pushkin’s The Queen of Spades. They try to inve