by The Cowl Editor on September 23, 2021
Poetry
by Toni Rendon ’24
Why can’t life be more like The Sims
Where no matter what day it is, we can always win
Strangers come over to celebrate your birthday
And people can empathize with you on your worst days
Let’s build our home from the ground up
A place where happiness can always find us
Where our depression doesn’t have to win
And if we get stuck with it
We can always go to Create a Sim
and re-roll our traits again
Here we have a pause button
So, we don’t keep walking around like we lost something
There’s no fear if our hearts collide
Because here there’s only you and I
The NPCs are insignificant
This is our world, they just live in it
The bad parts, use fast forward to skip it
So, the sad parts we don’t really live it
Imagination is king here, so sky’s our limit
We always know how we are
Because our relationships are tracked in a bar
If we take the modding too far
And our perfect world crashes like a car
Promise that we’ll “Shift + Click” reset us
We can always work out the extras
Maybe this time we’ll get lucky
And the update won’t make the relationship buggy
I’m not trying to be funny
I’m just trying to raise my skills
So, I have what I need to pay our bills
Let’s not get into semantics
Instead use the mischief skill
And let’s get into some antics
We’ll never be bored now
There’s a whole new 64-bit world
For us to explore now