Content warning: mention of suicide
In Sims, capitalism doesn’t mean we all end up dead
There is a cheat
code that
doesn’t require you
to be an ass-
hole but we still don’t need
it. We eat avocado
toast and smile
all day. I get fat
with your love
and walk the
black lab every
half an hour. We
buy you that
easel and I make
money off my
novel and I still
have time to
pet that dog.
We finally have
that baby and I
am not
suicidal and
we are not
poor.
Sims as (every) bad day
I am 15 days old. I am hungry and upset. I have been an adult for four days. Someone has removed the steps to my pool. They put them back again when I started to wet myself, when I’d had to switch from breast stroke to doggy paddle. When I get out, the baby has stopped being a baby after three days. They grow up so fast that I don’t have a toddler bed. And I do not have the ability to buy one.
Elspeth Wilson (website, twitter) is a writer, researcher and facilitator who is interested in how we make the body a home. Their work has been shortlisted for Canongate’s Nan Shepherd prize and Penguin’s Write Now programme. They can usually be found in or near the sea.
Image: The Sims press image.