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Elspeth Wilson - Two Poems About The Sims

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  1. Whom
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    Looking into it, it seems like these are from a collection called New Rules: play during the pandemic which I am now eager to read.

    Looking into it, it seems like these are from a collection called New Rules: play during the pandemic which I am now eager to read.

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    cfabbro
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    Copied the poems here since the site took quite a while to load for me, for some unknown reason: click to read them Really fun/funny and I enjoyed those, especially the first one. Its rhythm is...

    Copied the poems here since the site took quite a while to load for me, for some unknown reason:

    click to read them

    In Sims, capitalism doesn’t mean we all end up dead

    There is a cheat
    code that
    doesn’t require you
    to be an ass-
    hole but we still don’t need
    it. We eat avocado
    toast and smile
    all day. I get fat
    with your love
    and walk the
    black lab every
    half an hour. We
    buy you that
    easel and I make
    money off my
    novel and I still
    have time to
    pet that dog.
    We finally have
    that baby and I
    am not
    suicidal and
    we are not
    poor.

    Sims as (every) bad day

    I am 15 days old. I am hungry and upset. I have been an adult for four days. Someone has removed the steps to my pool. They put them back again when I started to wet myself, when I’d had to switch from breast stroke to doggy paddle. When I get out, the baby has stopped being a baby after three days. They grow up so fast that I don’t have a toddler bed. And I do not have the ability to buy one.

    Really fun/funny and I enjoyed those, especially the first one. Its rhythm is interesting, and they both definitely sum up how I often play (and feel about) the Sims too.

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    1. [3]
      Whom
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      Yeah, I accidentally posted a pretty slow archive link. Here is the site itself (and probably what the link for this post should be changed to).

      Yeah, I accidentally posted a pretty slow archive link. Here is the site itself (and probably what the link for this post should be changed to).

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      1. [2]
        cfabbro
        Link Parent
        Ah. Want me to update the link to that?

        Ah. Want me to update the link to that?

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