Lessons from Chess

(by Daniel R. Jones)

Arguing about vinyl siding on their dream home—
whether her canary yellow was better
or his forest green.

I don’t understand synapses,
those dastardly electric impulses
throughout the brain.

An odd time for it to pop in my head, I know:
‘the queen always gets her color.’

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