the rules keep changing

play a game with my son and you will always lose
what starts out as,
hit the plastic golf ball into the plastic cup and you win,
turns into,
you don't win because he wasn't ready to defend the cup,
when you happen to succeed

I know he's four and a half,
but I want to know all the rules when I start something
no false excitements
"oh, I did it!" to "no, you didn't!"
even at thirty-five, this hurts

maybe it's a little too close to real life
and when I'm 'playing' I don't want real life
I don't want to fail
shouldn't playing be fun?

you should see me in January
a few days of nice weather and I think the calendar is wrong
Spring is here! A miracle!
of course the cold and rain returns and Mother Nature turns into my son

now you're saying
"be a good sport, be a realist, not everything follows the rules, that's just the way it is"
you're right
I know
but I don't like it

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