The spike balls keep killing us
but it’s more fun when it’s hard
like this jumping off a ledge into oblivion
over and over again until
we laugh how futile we are
repeating our steps expecting
something to change when nothing is
yet everything has
but we’re still here
slouching on the couch with
sweaty palms clawing Joy-Cons
trying to evade the spike balls
on this ledge you help me up
and you dodge
while I run under more moving dangers
that corner me and I wait,
resting, breathing,
until there is space
to make my move
and detonate the safe side
of the one chasing you
which explodes into gems
you’re right here
to collect. We move on.
We reach the dance party,
hum along to the theme song,
flex our stiff fingers, twist
a cookie off the baking sheet.
We’ll have to do it again sometime.
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