The Long Game
When you are doing bicep curls
or adding miles to your Saturday runs
or putting money in your retirement account
or voting or growing out your hair,
people say, it’s the long game
And you know it’s true, you know
that patience is a virtue, that good things
come to those who wait, that you should try
and try and try again.
But with each turn of your own dial
the long game gets shorter –
you’ve played so much of it already.
It it too much to ask that just this once,
we shave off a few innings, that the win
be decisive, that the gratification
be delicious and, just this once, immediate?
Typewriter Rodeo airs each Friday on Texas Standard. 
