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Trap Queen
Upon a dark night
pieces into play
Two to be checked
One maneuvering away
Take the board off the table
Break the pieces down to nothing
Grind the game to a halt
To create a new rendition
Pick the pieces up and play
Check.
Pick the pieces up and play
Check.
No time, no time
No control for roles of exhibition
No chance, no stance
Playing in the state of this submission
Pick the pieces up and play
Check.
Pick the pieces up and play
Check.
Check the lines
Check the lies
Check the power play at hand
Check the ninety-nined hand
And the garrison of grey
Can’t stay
Move into a new transition
Can’t stay
Checked into this new state of
Repetition
White knight countered
By the sable token trick
Picked off perfectly at peace
Just to take another hit
Queen moves. Check.
Queen moves. Check.
Take the piece off the board
In a game of black and white
Where one false-handed-shift
Brings the Queen to sit tight
Can’t follow play-for play
When one’s just reacting
To the hollowness of movements
And the game’s counteracting
Leave the game
Leave the game
Leave the game in mint condition
Take the pieces off the board
Having rendered your suspicion
Of the memories you’ve stored
Stored deep in this condition
Played this game for keeps
Played this game to win it
Movements so discrete
Played it for a minute
Know you’ve played it all before
Knowing you would win it
And you know for a minute
You’re not playing it to finish
Checked to the game
Checked to the power
Checked to the Queen
Trapping you and your hours
Checking all the time
Checked into your ivory tower
Can’t move fixed pieces
When they’re running from the board
Pick the pieces up and played them
‘till the play is ignored
Bring the pieces back to play
Check.
Pick the pieces up and play.
Check.
How’s a Pawn to be wrong
To be putting up position
Always on guard to disregard
When was weakness a tradition
That became a new admission
To be stuck in this position
Can’t be forced to surrender
When you’ve never moved in
Always sitting back in your attack
How’s a player supposed to win
Queen moves. Check.
Queen moves. Check.
King’s cornered in the black
Moving sideways back-to-back
All the pieces bottlenecked
As the game draws to an end
On a flight without a fight
Check.
And all the actions just pretend.
Check.
As it Draws to an end
Sounds Like
it was somebody's interesting life:
.
check
a draft, a game's objective
check
a teacher's mark
to demonstrate
professionalist night work
check
what hockey players do
when the goalie is tied-in
elsewhere.
check, as in stopping
the game from proceeding
due to illegal activities
or checked-out as in caught
in the act of infamy.
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Lady A
07-29-15
459p
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