As prophetic as a fortune cookie
old Larry Ferlinghetti 
thumped my own melon
Likened chess to life
where Life is retreating
and Time is running the board
And if I opened the game obtusely
oh, I don’t know, like a child
there’s still chance at salvation:
Make your move like there’s no tomorrow
even this second, or hour
right now is all you really have
However studiously Nabokovian 
the Ferlinghetti Solution may be
my move is simpler:
(pause)
(wait for it …)
EAT THE DAMN COOKIE
(BERNK!)

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