Una Partida de Risk

How boring this gray afternoon is, don't feel like going out
It's raining outside
Summer passed like a
ray of light riding a bicycle
Today there's nothing
to do, nothing to listen to or watch on any given afternoon
Autumn arrived with its brown carpet
spread on the sidewalks
and the phone finally rings
two friends and a plan for me
and also a friend
who also wants to come
a game of
Risk, a Trivial Pursuit, a Parcheesi
I'll conquer your country,
lots of questions about you,
mix your pieces with mine
under the table, your
cheating caresses

And that gray afternoon filled with color
we became friends
and we spent the winter asking for:
goals, strategy, answers, and wedges
then came the dates, the parks, the cinemas,
meeting as friends
in spring I rolled my dice
got sixes and we kissed
and now on afternoons like this the four of us get together
we call
friends recently separated and in no time we
see them married