the default opponent

he kept

losing

at chess

on his

macbook

couldn’t beat

the damn

computer

but he wouldn’t

keep playing

if

he

could

life

after all,

was a

combination

of

god and

chess pieces

things to do

I play it safe,

resting my hands against the letters

white pages

magicians

can’t tell you how much easier it is when the

ink bleeds.

I want to say something but I don’t know what my

dream tastes like.

it helps sometimes to

pretend that what you’ve been doing

has failed only because you haven’t done it right

it doesn’t take long to figure out

what this means:

stories with morals too important to share

“I really wish you’d stop doing that”

its not the shoes though

that make a man look

fit for walking