How to Play FIGHT!

First

you must talk

until the jar

is full of

words. Give an equal number

to each player who loves

the other. It doesn’t matter

at this stage

what they say.

Now turn over your words

so the letters face

down shamefully.

Assemble your words

into sentences, or what

look like sentences

blank side up—

you never

flip them over.

Now take turns

reading your sentences

at the loudest possible volume.

The round ends

when each player

finally quits. Sentences

may be repeated. You never

listen. You are always

interrupting. Sentences

may be repeated. Now both players

are yelling together so no one

can understand ever.

This goes on. Date night.

Reconnect. Everyone finds

the dark.

Of course no one wins.

It’s not a game.

For two players.