Albrecht De Vriendt, Belgian
In Retrospect, Ned Realized He Probably Should’ve Proposed BEFORE Shouting “Checkmate!,” 1868
Oil on panel
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/// They are playing a taut game of chess.
Stakes are high, so they’re both under stress.
It’s His Turn and he’s tense.
Can he break her defense?
If he wins, she must take off her dress.
/// Because small talk is something they hate,
they chose strip-chess to be their first date.
White, he made the first move,
now he’s trying to prove
he can capture the Queen and then mate.
/// For each piece lost, they’d doff something small,
but those rules got them nowhere at all.
So the stakes have been raised;
they continue unfazed,
knowing now that it’s “winner take all.”
/// Is he clergy? A Cardinal, say?
(If so, red garb‘s what gave it away.)
Yet, the “Cardinal” word
can describe a red bird.
This guy’s more like a smug popinjay.