This week on Next Line, Please, quizmaster Lehman has provided a new prompt: a game of poetry chess in which the first and last moves are already determined, and you, the writer, have 10 moves to connect them. Who will be the first to take on this challenge and win by check mate?
Here are the lines:
Line one: “It is impossible to love the same person twice.”
Last line: “A thought is as real a thing as a cannonball.”
Here are the rules:
—You do not have to agree with either of the statements given, and your poem may begin with a dissent.
—You may put either or both of the statements in quote marks.
—You may rhyme but you’re not obliged to do so.
—You may give your poem a title.
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