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Chess Cheaters---B

Sight, feignedly fixed on chess board;
Mind, slinking toward smart phone
---the Sacrosanct Savior that just has to be enshrined in the toilette---
urging new hot tips to hop out and help out.

Each toilette patronage pays back an omnipotent panopticon 
through which to pirate opponent's move patterns;
Each stool stay serves back stunners, 
or even sockdologers 
with which to sock it to the opposite side.

Triumph and trophy, lustrous and alluring, though,
the way to catch hold of the twins bids no thoroughfare.
Steep seems improving personal playing strength;
Cheap shot against supervisory loopholes, 
a nice shortcut for patzers to spurt into pantheon.

When wanglers walk off with wins undetected,
when honest players get snookered in the dark,
snollygoster's spirit surges at the epicenter
while chess ethos withers in the wilderness.

Copyright © Amarantus Lauriere




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