Neon Angels vs. Black Holes

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Neon-lit angels hover, halos flickering like faulty neon signs,
their wings casting spectra across a cosmic chessboard.
Each piece is a planet, a star,
sometimes a neutron star snapping under pressure.
Black holes lean forward,
event horizons curling like grins,
absorbing bishops, pawns, even knights,
spitting them out as Hawking radiation
that smells faintly of ozone and mischief.
The angels hum in electric harmonics,
casting strategic glances
that bend light and probability.
Rooks orbit each other,
queens stretch spacetime like elastic,
and the king... the king teeters on a supernova's edge.
Check.
Gravity ripples, swallowing a pawn whole,
but an angel blinks—split into three possibilities,
undoing the collapse
with a flick of phosphorescent feathers.
Time dilates,
the game lasting eons yet only minutes,
and somewhere between galaxies,
a neon halo fries like circuitry,
a black hole giggles,
and the universe takes a deep, amused breath.

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