KILLERS

KILLERS

whoever
first thought checkmate
knew final
understood
completion

look at that regal
fellow first
battling to evade
now unable
to escape

what looked impossible
at the hands of
these killers
becomes inevitable

you know
the names of
the most infamous
of these murderers

Fischer, Carlsen,
Kasparov Alekhine,
Capablanca, Morphy

if you find them
on the other
side of the board
you are soon a dead man