Baseball Cards: Intolerable Suspense

Your brain’s racing, its silvery foil
like the foil of the card
with the image of the Hall-of-Fame player
sliding through your trembling fingers.

The possibilities are endless.
Your hand split between caution and haste.
You're hoping, believing bragging rights may lie inside.
No one knows. As you slowly
tear apart the back edge,
secrets are revealed. Opening a pack
of baseball cards is harder than it looks.