Percentages
The build-up of blank pages,
grid line determination, ruled-out
and truthful agreement,
it was the first of wishes,
balanced breaking waves,
toss of blue-green shade,
what we could have signed to.
We could have been
Iosif and Winston, divvying up
Yugoslavia, ticking parchment,
dipping ink quills in each our
sweated feints at denial,
at principled diplomats
before falling
once again to settled logic;
two empires' demarcation,
surrendered nations' terms.
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