A hard game
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- Jim Henson
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- You think building Hoggle’s a hard game?You know bunk. Writing a ghazal’s a hard game.
-Let’s meet in a place where words & fabric play—but not plastic words. (Boggle’s a hard game.)
-A cookout where we can hash our differencesover steak, though making it sizzle’s a hard game.
-Let’s go to a brothel, rub shoulders with bareshoulders, or a bar. Being wastrel’s a hard game.
-Maybe we could switch professions, you and I,you write the poems, I’ll puppet Fozzie—a hard game.
-When you call me, you never say my name.Creativity’s a hose—shutting the nozzle’s the hard game.
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