Do not save this game
before your cold resign,

nor dress your home for haunting
by precious memories
over the final score;

bear no eager grudges
concerning those hard bloody tackles
and skin-scraped shins

or the hustling crowd of other
sensible, coordinated couples.

Just two blind referees
residing over each other’s game

now playing from the touchline.

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