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POETIC
IMPORT
Stratagem
Several moves ago, pizza and checkers
beneath the weakest of efforts from tungsten.
Presently, chess and escargot
above immaculate travertine.
It remains difficult to know
which dame is more complex.
Perhaps it would help
to sneak the light of scars
from the kite’s sky —
remove that hat, too.
For now, though, another double jump
and knight takes bishop…
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