CHAPMATE: Chess Poetry

Leaping Limerick

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  • Armin Hamrah ’23

In the flat world’s corner, there was a knight

Brave, pugnacious, ready for a fight

Jumping to an outpost

Where it can be used most

Forking pieces like food all night

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