inspired by David Mitchell's "Black Swan Green"So I talked about the Game of Life-
You win by getting your little car to the end of the road of life first- but being two players at once is no fun.
Contestants have to guess a missing word- they win crap prizes,
Praying to scoop the kitty from Free Parking, Hugo’s already got hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane.
The scores climb high as rugby scores. One game can last hours, until the last-but-one kid goes home. And then the games are more like battles.
The cost of winning is so high that it would have been better if you’d never bothered,
Winning needs luck and bravery.
Talking with some people’s like moving up higher screens of a computer game,
My strategy collapsed and I didn’t even clear the first screen. A plastic disc floats on a cushion of air- but you need another human.
Spectators voted with their grins.
Operation’s this game where you take out bones from a patient’s body- war games’re extinct now. We played winner stays on.
Swerving, eddying, and ramming Score-Less-Than-20-With-3-Darts-and-Pick-Any-Prize! Grand Master of the Helter Skelter, tonight I leaned into the curves.
One crucial song tips the disco over,
Ain’t no TV here. I’m fishin’, I am.What was the name of that game when we were kids? Where the first one to catch up with the other won?
photo: alibubba (flickr)
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