04-17-2021, 10:04 AM
Great Game
Used to work with some guys
who’d play the game of “Risk” (tee-em)
loudly at all hours – “high-speed Risk,”
they called it.
Board game – you know, map
of the world with markers representing
armies, fronts, colored by nations
invading, retreating, drafting forces
continent to continent
sea to sea. Kept us up at night
in our part of the bunker, echoing.
Then in the morning
they’d get up (as would we) and sometimes
preflight their bombers model bee-fifty-two
verifying each contained its load
of fuel and intercontinental maps and nukes
ensuring that no one mistook
the Great Game for Risk (tee-em).
Used to work with some guys
who’d play the game of “Risk” (tee-em)
loudly at all hours – “high-speed Risk,”
they called it.
Board game – you know, map
of the world with markers representing
armies, fronts, colored by nations
invading, retreating, drafting forces
continent to continent
sea to sea. Kept us up at night
in our part of the bunker, echoing.
Then in the morning
they’d get up (as would we) and sometimes
preflight their bombers model bee-fifty-two
verifying each contained its load
of fuel and intercontinental maps and nukes
ensuring that no one mistook
the Great Game for Risk (tee-em).
Non-practicing atheist