Tagged: games
perhaps life is not
perhaps life is not
far from a worker placement
game – we harvest, feed,
harvest, feed, harvest feed, always
before the next grueling round
.
20230504:2050
y
at the crux of it
at the crux of it
all, we are learning what buttons
to push, to avoid –
when expertly packaged, rules are
life’s creative distractions
.
20230218:1903
y
guaranteeing fun
guaranteeing fun
requires an adept management
of expectations –
no one promises that the
rules will be easy to find
.
20230212:1153
y
the space in between
the space in between
games is gossamery, we flit
and flutter to land
.
20220727:2020
y
on my level, we also spend
on my level, we also spend
too much time fighting
Goombas and Koopa
Troopas, with the
occasional Hammer
Brothers, wasting
good lives on all
of Bowser’s minions,
so that we lose sight
of the pixelated construct
.
20180406:2153
y
relief trades playing
relief trades playing
cards with pain, sometimes also
with fear, there are no
winners, nor losers in the
end, only ephemeral fools
.
20170808:2016
y
perhaps months,
perhaps months,
years from now, these
days will become
foggy, it’s how our
minds insist on
playing games with
our hearts – now you see
me, now you don’t –
we have no choice as
witnesses, obligated
to make out every
fine detail in the
heightened haze
.
20170502:0738
y
in the middle of
in the middle of
the night, the mind runs
errands the body
pretends to know
nothing about,
reshuffles everything
we’ve said or felt or
said we’ve felt
so that there are
new hands to play
by morning, with
over two-point-five
million possibilities
hidden beneath
our poker faces
.
20160816:0148
y
it requires a little
it requires a little
physics to build
something comfy,
a place where we can
call out safe!
for the games
we will
play into
eternity – darling,
you’re my base
.
20130827:2200
y
city children do not
city children do not
understand that you
cannot play
marco polo out of
water and on the
streets, even in
the vicinity of
a shooting
fire hydrant. they do
know however
that everyone should
be
this free
some day
.
20100611:1919
y
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