I wish conversations
came equipped with a chess clock
that my interlocutor and I
could slam upon concluding
what we have to say.
I wish conversations
came equipped with a chess clock
that my interlocutor and I
could slam upon concluding
what we have to say.
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You think chess clocks give conversations a time limit /
But they just make it so your words are limited /
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