The future wife of a school teacher
dazzled her way through the vestibule
and on down the white corridor into temporary oblivion.
Following after her, a large, gray, rat searched
for morsels under a dull fluorescent glow, but
his gullet would rumble for some time more.

She exited the dark into a giant chessboard
set in the center with a stationary chair, currently
inhabited by loneliness. She followed the
bishops’ path across the black squares
to the glorified piece of kindling and sat
atop lonely’s lap.

The pitiful creature was instantly aroused by
the contact and the plain woman felt a strong
poke at her thigh. “Ooh,” she said aloud,
and eww she thought. Thinking that she made
a mistake, she kissed him on the cheek and it
responded with flames of embarrassed passion
as his eyes followed her new path of escape.

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