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Cat’s Game, or Playing Noughts & Crosses in the Dusk

  • Writer: Admin
    Admin
  • 4 hours ago
  • 1 min read

You tell me tic-

tac-toe is

boring, will always

end in ties, a stale-

mate just like us,


where nothing has been

lost but never won,

drawing draws 

ad infinitum,

our pencils ever

dull in HB grey,


from the scratch

of X & Os, in a box in

a box of nine, lives of a

sterile cat, jejune

along its treadmill

night & day,


stop & start

eternally out of

reach—of its clawless,

pacing paws, going nowhere

slow yet swift—

 

a circle

of which there is no

bitter close, commencement,

a first or final kiss,

 

and where an X

is always X—

 

regardless of

inversion,

its red of wrong

& quarry,

 

will always mark the

spot that lied of love.

 

 

 

Andreas Gripp

July 1, 2025


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