Peasant Strength

I have never much cared for games

Of any sort

Not sporting games

Not board games

Not mind games

Not power games

I like poker,

Enjoy shooting pool

Tennis volleys can be nice

Cross country

Downhill

I love to swim, but only languidly

I have played the markets when younger

But never had the nerve to hold

I can play at what needs if I must

But mostly

My favorite thing

Is doing nothing

With nobody

Sleeping

Dreaming

My life in a constant undertaking

To heal

From this, that, or the other chaos self-created or put upon

I have long thought of taking a vow of silence

Of running far away

Of closing off from all

And I am pretty closed as is

But still, it all trickles in

The wars

The preppers

The religious zealots

The self-helpers

The woo woos