Go!

Greg played a game

called Go,

which I'd never heard of

until I learned about

reading about his participation,

his enthusiasm

for it.

And for years

it was just the name

of a game he played,

and I had no idea what it was,

and then finally

one day I looked it up,

and I actually

just looked it up again,

since I never got around

to playing it myself.

My family loves to play games,

although most of them

are board games

or card games,

so the closest we came to Go

was the common games

like backgammon

or Chinese Checkers.

Greg was as close to a pro

at the game of Go

as there is ever likely

to be.

It occurs to me

the more I think about it,

the longer I live,

and here we are

nearly twenty years later,

and what I would really like

is to one day

play Go,

and maybe 

make a habit of it.

I have little doubt

Greg could beat me,

but I guess

what I'd really like,

would be to lose a game of Go

to him.

I'm not always a very good loser,

which is probably why I don't play a lot of games

these days.

I'd happily lose to him.