Riley B
Life Is a Game of Cards
Life is a game of cards, like Poker. Maybe Texas Hold ‘Em, or Omaha if you’re more of the impatient type, whichever you desire.
The rules are simple, all you have to do is use the deaths of innocent people in order to fuel your success, those are your cards.
You’ll need to be sure to gather money as well as support from the general public so as to make sure you stay afloat, those are your chips.
Now, your opponents will be trying to do accomplish the very same goal, collect chips. So, in order to gain the upper hand, wear a mask that makes it seem like you care about the issues going on with this country, that is your poker face.
As per the rules, once you’ve used a card, discard it. That card is now meaningless to both you and your goal, it is trash.
If you lose a hand, if you lose your chips, blame it on the people, also known as the deck. Don’t worry about the weapons, racism, homophobia, transphobia, in other words your skills as a player.
Continue to use and eventually throw away the cards so that you are able to obtain more chips than your opponent. Whenever you screw up, lose a hand, and your skill is called into question, blame your loss on the deck, not your skill. And while all this goes down, be sure to wear a poker face.
Life is like a game of cards, and it’s your job as a television news outlet to profit.
End of Chapter
Hey
So we’re done
Our story’s finally complete
You seem sad
Don’t be sad
Please instead feel glee
You may wish you could go
back in time and live it all again
But that’s not what we’re meant to do
so instead let’s go ahead
You may bummed
may feel glum
sad that it’s all done
But isn’t it great
we got this love
we got to finish what we begun
Sure we’ll miss
these great times
yeah no doubt
we’ll miss them a lot.
But you can’t
you know you can’t
focus on them
no you cannot
There’s much more
in the future
so much more
for you
and me
Precious Gifts
for all of us
things
that we call
Memories
So I know
you’re sad
you will miss
all these times
but the past is the past
and the future is bright
Let those tears
fall away
Let happiness
Soar instead
Because we got a great future
So let’s make the most of it
Hey
There’s that smile
that pretty smile
it took you long enough
Don’t worry
I’ll show you mine
but for now let’s just talk
Shih Tzu
My dogs barked
The neighbor’s dog barked back
It was a Shih Tzu
near the bus stop
Every morning it would call for me
Every evening it would cry for me
Stop
Stop, like what was displayed on the sign near the bus
Stop, like that kid Evan stopped coming down to the bus stop with me
I heard his brother got his hands on a car
He didn’t need the bus
I still did
Stop, like how I stopped roasting marshmallows down at the little girl’s house
whose names I didn’t know
once dusk had fallen onto to the neighborhood
the only light being that of my busted, old tablet
Stop, like the words I cried when that young border collie starting feasting on my skin
furious for no reason
Stop, like the pain once the border collie managed to tear my cheek right off
time stopping right then and there
Stop, like my tears did
I remembered that this border collie was my own dog
Stop, like my best friend didn’t talk to me anymore
we had gotten into an argument
I could swear I was right
I was not
Stop, like my hopes did
two couples had moved into the vacant houses next to my own
neither had any kids
I wanted new friends
Stop, like the schoolwork
It was the end of the year
things had changed
my excitement for summer was gone
Stop, like my feet did
I had gotten off the bus
taking in the breeze
Stop, like my heart did when I didn’t see the dog
I had expected to see it running around
It was not
I wonder where it went
Every morning it would call for me
Every evening it would cry for me
It was Shih Tzu
near the Bus Stop
My dogs barked
The neighbor’s dog did not bark back