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Checkmate
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"The one who might have known / Is dead / And better left alone"


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Checkmate

My son called with a question
About chess
I made neither suggestion
Nor a guess

I never got good
Nor quite understood
This game
Nor one other:

"Life"

By name
Rife
With possibilities
And dread

For questions such as these
I said
Call your brother
Instead

The one who might have known
Is dead
And better left alone

+Steven Curtis Lance



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 Reviews of "Checkmate"
Reviewed by June Thompson (Reader)
Reviewed on December 13, 2005
Maybe I didn't understand it correctly

maybe it was plain for me to see-

strange comments to me none the less I'd say...

this was to the point, so clever

Reviewed on July 8, 2005
YOu tell em' STeve- HOnesty is the Key! I could never get a grip on Chess myself- too confusing and it's challenging I've been told. I love Challenges, but- this NeVER took hold- How are you today? HuGs 2 U- Lady,Sheee

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on July 5, 2005
An aggressive touch to this one!!

Well done!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on July 4, 2005
I have never quite grasped the intricacies of chess either, perhaps our imaginations and strategies are used better in other pursuits such as our writing, anyway sound advice is referring to someoneelse when we don't have the answers.

Felixx

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton (Reader)
Reviewed on July 4, 2005
Got to say that this 'un rattle my cage a bit. Almost Sandburgish.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on July 4, 2005
Grippingly good.

Ron


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