decisively.

It's an effortless match we serve 
and volley, and score without boards
or lines, or net. Someone's keeping track, 
I'm sure - we both are - but incomparably, 
without numbers or bets. When each 
of us win, I'll defeat you at last. It won't 
be a tie, as you triumph withal. The fans 
will leap up from the stands in a rush 
to the court or the exits, but we 

will just stand there 
and breathe, and smile, 
and stall