Gold Medal Game
Who notices
your coach
The way there
🤸🙆🤍✨
🏅The Podium
Vault, then Bars, then Beam, then Floor, then The Podium.
What you become
🥉 Bronze🥈 Silver🥇 Gold💎 Platinum👑 Champion
The first one was built for one girl, and it was about gymnastics because
she does gymnastics. It worked. Then it did not travel — a boy who has never
set foot in a gym is not moved by a gold medal, and a child who would rather
be baking is not moved by a vault.
So the scenery came apart from the rules.
The child picks the world. What is underneath does not move an inch.
In every one of them, points are called billions — and roll into trillions past a thousand of those. Children who play anything on a screen score in the billions before lunch, and "4 goals" does not move them.
Vault, then Bars, then Beam, then Floor, then The Podium.
What you becomeLaunch, then Orbit, then The Moon, then Deep Space, then Touchdown.
What you becomeFirst Trot, then The Canter, then The Jump, then Cross Country, then The Ribbon.
What you becomeKick Off, then Half Time, then The Goal, then Semi Final, then The Cup.
What you becomeFirst Bone, then The Skull, then The Nest, then The Skeleton, then The Museum.
What you becomeFirst Spark, then The Charm, then The Potion, then The Spell, then The Wand.
What you becomeThe Shallows, then The Reef, then The Wreck, then The Trench, then The Surface.
What you becomeFirst Line, then The Sketch, then The Color, then The Canvas, then The Gallery.
What you becomeThe Trail, then The Ridge, then Base Camp, then The Climb, then The Summit.
What you becomeThe Plans, then Foundations, then Walls Up, then The Roof, then The Whole City.
What you becomeThe Mixing, then The Rising, then The Bake, then The Icing, then The Feast.
What you becomeThe Stance, then The Form, then The Focus, then The Test, then Black Belt.
What you becomeTip Off, then The Assist, then The Three, then The Buzzer, then The Ring.
What you becomeThe Audition, then Rehearsals, then Dress Night, then Opening Night, then Standing Ovation.
What you becomeA child who switches from the stable to the dojo on a Tuesday keeps
every point, every rank and every prize they were saving for. The screen
changes color and the number does not so much as flicker.
That is not
a kindness we remembered to add. A world is a set of names and colors sitting
on top of a ledger, and the ledger has never been told which one is showing.
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