Fun & Games 1

"yes, but..."
"no, but..."
here's how you 'negotiate'

in no position to argue
I am a reasonable person (I tell myself)
grateful till it sickens me,
patient to the edge of despair,
translucent and constantly there-for

yes, but
no, but
here's how you dictate

it's time to put my foot down
-- surprisingly easy, you'll see
this interdependence,
this well-kept secret
is by mutual agreement
and that, my friend, is strange mathematics:
there are two
and without a half
there are none.