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<h1 class="title">A hard game</h1>
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<p><span class="line">You think building Hoggle’s a hard game?</span><span class="line">You know bunk. Writing a ghazal’s a hard game.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">Let’s meet in a place where words & fabric play—</span><span class="line">but not <a href="sense-of-it.html">plastic</a> words. (Boggle’s a hard game.)</span></p>
<p><span class="line">A cookout where we can hash our differences</span><span class="line">over steak, though making it sizzle’s a hard game.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">Let’s go to a brothel, <a href="finding-the-lion.html">rub shoulders</a> with bare</span><span class="line">shoulders, or a bar. Being wastrel’s a hard game.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">Maybe we could switch professions, you and I,</span><span class="line">you write the poems, I’ll puppet Fozzie—a hard game.</span></p>
<p><span class="line">When you call me, you never say my name.</span><span class="line">Creativity’s <a href="fire.html">a hose</a>—shutting the nozzle’s the hard game.</span></p>
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