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Syntax Issue 10
Denver Syntax
{#554}
  adam fieled



You’re game;
every moved piece
hits me. Every
dive on/off board
is a snap-tailed fish.
More than ducks &
fishes, we are two
checkered pieces.
There is no mate
to be checked, but
a deck to be cut.

(I say this because
if I’ve got game, I’ve
got you, your tails)