{"sf1_id":1837456,"sf2_id":"WelNXGkn","title":"The Last Game of the Master Domino Player","author":"Apolarbear17","words":358,"posted_at":"2022-04-01T21:41:00.000Z","tags":["Death","Dominoes","Grief","Poetry","venting"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1837456-the-last-game-of-the-master-domino-player","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/WelNXGkn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/19/20/1920c9aa-3690-4efc-b859-8942cbfdcf31","description":"Wrote this a while ago in the same week I experienced a tragic and personally devastating loss, the loss of my grandfather. This poem was a tribute to him and it won't be the last one I have to post out of my backlog. There were a few spots back then and last year I was not in a good place and it might show in some of my writings, just want to give that little warning now with the benefit of hindsight on things to come. Anyway, this tribute has a lot that comes with it but I think it still serves the same function of telling a little bit about the hard loss of a man who shaped me in so many ways and is adequate at least. I still miss a lot. Originally posted and written December 2020","content":"The Last Game of the Master Domino Player\n\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno\n\n  \n\nPlop!\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe first domino is placed down on the table and the game begins\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe master domino player takes in his options and makes a move seemingly confident he'll win\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut his opponent is strong and well known for their comeback\u0026nbsp;\n\nThis opponent goes after the elderly and is viscous in their plan of attack\n\nThe master domino player though, he's stubborn and for his age quite strong\n\nThis game, it's guaranteed to be painfully long\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe wise old domino master, he watches the opponent make the first move\n\nStarting off with an average double three from the opponent\n\nThey both settle into the game's slow, methodical groove\n\nBoth of them making strategies and trying to reach that critical victory moment\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor this is for the last game for one of them and they both know it\u0026nbsp;\n\nThey're both careful and calculating with their moves trying to block the other one's moves and also not to blow it\u0026nbsp;\n\nFor a while they play their hands of 7 and pick up more pieces when needed\n\nNeither wanting to be defeated\u0026nbsp;\n\nIt's a valiant struggle and they both play hard\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut in the end it's the old domino master who gets hoisted on his own petard\u0026nbsp;\n\nHe was stubborn to the end even though he realized halfway into the game that he would be defeated\u0026nbsp;\n\nBut he couldn't not fight this opponent, this challenger had to be greeted\u0026nbsp;\n\nSadly the opponent was not only wise and strong but they also cheated\n\nIn the end the old domino master was destined to be outclassed and his life deleted\n\nThe stakes were known and the opponent sadly at the end of game won all, that sickly harbinger of death made the inevitable call\u0026nbsp;\n\nThe master domino player, till the end he lived up to his reputation as a good man and was loved by all\u0026nbsp;\n\nHis tragic and hard fought against loss leaving his family from sisters to grandsons to sadly just bawl\u0026nbsp;\n\nAt the end of the day there are only keepsakes and many now bittersweet memories to recall   \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\n  \n  \n\n"}