13
Positioning

Sometimes we feel like a sperm again,
Swimming wildly in that dark abyss,
desperately needing to be the one
breaking the mucus of the egg.
The triumph, the halo,
the belly-red glow of success that follows
stays with us —
haunts us.

On the training field Nando was jogging,
his new puppy watching from his SEAT.
We're doing well, second is good Stevie?
Stevie couldn't look at him.
Don't you think Stevie?
Stevie squinted, hard.
Second is fuck all Nando,
Nino, whatever. Second is fucking... nothing.