Lee Holloway Towers Poet Free verse

Dumped, by app

We'd played each other on the
song guessing app for
six years, ever since we were matched up
when I visited Iceland in 2016; we
both liked Classic Rock and stuck to
70s playlists

For a few weeks one year (2022) I was
"out of sorts" and didn't log in; when
I next opened the app
I saw Haraldur had terminated our six-year
rivalry

I mean, I led him by 540 to 86 games,
he was a bit slow,
but I valued our unspoken international alliance

It stung for a while but my
main concern was that my wife,
whenever I played the game,
always asked me how 'your friend Olaf' was doing

And now I just can't admit that he's
no longer my friend

I am 55 years old

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