Poems by John-Francis Quinonez, Taylor Steele, Jaz Sufi, and LYD Havens. Art by Catherine Weiss. I With I Wasn't Royalty is a collaborative poetry chapbook disguised as a playable 54 card deck. The project is an exploration of bipolar disorder by four poets and an artist with lived experience of extreme mood states. Each card in the deck features a distinct piece of artwork and one line of poetry. Every time you play with I Wish I Wasn't Royalty, a new poem is created. A standard card deck contains four suits: hearts, clubs, spades, and diamonds. I Wish I Wasn’t Royalty follows the same format. When placed in order, each suit makes up one full poem about a bipolar extreme mood state--either depression or mania. Each card contains one line of a poem and is designed to be a stand-alone thought and image.

Standard tourist 54 card deck inc jokers. Cardboard tuck box.

54 different black and white photos of Lucille Ball, from the I Love Lucy show, against coloured backgrounds wiht the show's title i script. The spades are against a blue background; the hearts are against a pink background; the clubs are against a green background; and the diamonds are against a mustard-coloured background, all pastels. There is a border around the top part of the cards, with the colours, but not the bottom part with the photo. The backs are one-way of the picture on the front of the tuck box, with no borders. The jokers have different photos, one on a pink background, and one on a blue background.