Undefeated (Until I'm Not)

They call me undefeated,

they call me the untouchable one

I've never lost a battle,

never lost a fight,

never been outrun

I'm a legend in the making,

I'm a story they'll retell

Undefeated! Unstoppable!

I crush it! I excel!

I am undefeated in EVERY

arena, every

contest, every game— except Mario Kart.

Against my nephew.

Who is

eight.

He does the blue shell thing

EVERY TIME right before the finish line

and he LAUGHS, he laughs with his whole little face,

and I just sit there replaying it in my mind I let

him win the first few times to be nice and now I

genuinely cannot beat him anymore

undefeated,

except against an eight-year-old on Rainbow Road,

I don't know what I'm fighting for

I bought a better controller.

I watched tutorials at 2 AM.

I practiced drifting technique alone

in my garage

like a grown man,

which I am

and he STILL beats me,

and then he asks

if I want a juice box like nothing even happened

undefeated,

until I'm not,

and apparently I'm not,

against a juice-box-having eight-year-old savage

Undefeated... until I'm not...

rematch is Saturday, I'll be ready...