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title: A hard game
genre: verse

project:
    title: Autocento of the breakfast table
    css: autocento
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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 differences \
over steak, though making it sizzle's a hard game.

Let's go to a brothel, rub shoulders with bare \
shoulders, 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---checking the nozzle's a hard game.