Image 1:
The powerful play their games on our backs. We are the coffee table, the board of the board game - our bodies support their plays. We hold the eliminated chess pieces in our mouths. We are silent, expensive furniture that decorate their homes.


Image 2:
What if we held tycoon summits in kiddie pools? Replaced their 
high stakes with flimsy floaties. Would we become the parents 
to these billionaire toddlers? Shake our heads in performative pity when they want their toys back. Pretend we care when they babble in 
incoherent money tongues.