Pick Any Card

A sucker may indeed be born quite often,
though every minute seems a bit too much.
That rate, were it determined by a boffin
I might find it believable as such.

But as it were, P.T., he ran a circus,
a showman to the core, if ever was.
There must have been a calculated purpose,
that man would never act without a cause.

Did Barnum take his customers as chumps,
the suckers are the ones that bought his tickets;
the ones that having taken all their lumps
would press to shove their money through his wickets?

He sold you the illusion that you're able
to spot the sucker at life's poker table.