The Cobalt Weekly

#72: Poetry by Laurinda Lind

CHEATING AT WAR 

I invented generals

and pulled them out

to the field unfairly

 

which means palming

kings, putting them

at top of the deck

 

plus slaying everything

in sight with aces,

some stolen, some

prematurely played.

 

I was a kid and my

cousin was trying

to kill me with cards

 

but I rigged the battle

as he babysat. I

was Benedict Arnold.

 

I was a shit and

unrepentant. I should

run for president.