the nonsense
of sports and games
became obvious when we never chose sides
thus we avoided intrusive psychological training
getting sucked into complicity,
false words of bravado,
not getting habituated to artificial victories
sport events were like floods and weather unruly groupings
and took on a strange seriousness as if religion found new roles
to frame the body as its latest weapon
yet minding our distance created new types of enemies,
provoked a not so harmless politics against friends