by doing so (tanka)

bonus awarded—
you get the prize, keep the spoils,
i lose—get nothing
in this manner life unspools—
ouroboros unbroken

What I’m Reading:

“Right-wingers quote Orwell out of context to smear their enemies as fascists, and in the next breath laud Russian President Vladimir Putin. There has always been a fair bit of doublethink involved.”

— Sandra Newman / “Now right-wing, anti-‘woke’ doublethink has come for George Orwell” / The Washington Post