Playing The ‘Game’

It’s this saying about people playing at doing 

crosswords; pardon m’ ignorance I ask, what 

has ‘playing’ to do with it, either you know, & 

are doing - within reason, exactly what you’d 

planned to do, intimating you’ll actually even 

guess a few words correctly; or, is it the view 

you haven’t a fandangle what th’ clue means 

first place, and thus the game’s already done 

But I’m informed, that isn’t the way we see it, 

there’s this idea of fun where we muse about 

meanings before filling the blanks. Sounds a 

complicated ordeal I reply, like seeing space 

as emptiness in need, best compensated by 
whichever waste's found most amusing. Ok,  

they say, how do you do it? With Thesaurus 

in hand; there is no way of me out-guessing 

‘em when they use the most obscure words 

whose meaning corresponds with ones you 

use daily, but’ve never seen before, & that’s 

hardly the vocabulary of a ‘game’ - isn’t it 

© 11 April 2018, I. D. Carswell