poetandknowit17 Dec 2002

I am just talking within the metaphor you are using. It is of a game, although a most difficult one. That angle can work there. But the way it is being approached is running away from the integrated but separate issue, which is a hefty subject and noble to tackle. The hexarchy issue is simply the pieces that go on that board. Pawn. Knight. King. You get the picture. It invokes class in a modern sense and I have seen it done with some skill by a fantastic poet by the name of (no, not Stan Rice) Thomas Lux. Trent Lott is in every magazine and newspaper in America right now: finally the closet racist and notorious proponent of bad hair has opened his mouth about race again. As I said, think this through. Make sure the images are saying what you want. It is tricky when dealing with the game board.