When you cheat at solitaire
what have you won?
What accomplishments can you claim
when you practice to deceive your own fucking self?
From all your lies
just what have you earned?

If you’re proud of yourself
you haven’t thinking about it hard enough.
Nothing you have done
in the service of this stupid master
will ever come to anything.
Think about what you’ve done.

You’ve won a race
by hobbling your opponents.
You’ve tricked someone into loving s you
that does not exist.
You’ve convinced a blind man
of what you look like.

Are you proud of yourself?
Then think again
more deeply
about what you’ve done.