February 13 – The New Diplomacy

Post It Note Poetry Feb 13

Two generals across the table

Negotiating the fate of two nations

One shakes his loosened fist

The bones rattling inside

He spills his hand, shakes his head.

With jubilation his opponent yells,

“You landed on Mayfair with one hotel!”

A final fistful of dollars flung across the table

The war is won.

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