Empty

The speaker describes unused swings and courts, then reflects on dealing with people who seem smarter. The speaker calls the middle a game that is not a playing field and ends with emptiness and going alone.

The writer connects social comparison with deserted spaces for play. Rough source wording leaves some transitions open; the page does not identify the people or explain the final solitude.

'Empty' opens on vacant play spaces, 'The children, not on swings / The courts with no hopping', then says that dealing with people 'you feel / are smarter than you are / is easy' while 'Lessof intellangce is hard'. It ends 'And it is not a playing field / All of it empty / To go alone'.

The poem moves from empty swings and courts to the loneliness of measuring oneself against others. It shares its central claim with 'Un scripted' on page 9, but here the middle is less settled, and 'We don't we do the end of time' is kept as typed without a paraphrase. Lessof and intellangce are source spellings. The final rows refuse the idea of a fair contest and leave only emptiness and solitude.