Monday, April 5, 2010

Sports News

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or the patter'oller be patton

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hurry up man -

we got this from a game:

by our newest news-set correspondent Charles Basin

It’s Dodgers ...
It’s big...it is vision...
Lincecum
Is
Galahad
Is Jack Spicer
Is, where
Is
Guinevere?
And where, Maid Marion?
And there is Uribe,
With a walk-off homer,
And there’s game and
There is Uribe
Is
Launcelot
Is
Benediction
Is
Waiting
And the forever tinkering
The constancy
Of the mountains
Is the fault-line
In the valley
Is the effeminacy
Of what it is
What it is
is the crouching
Of what it is
What it is
Is Jack Spicer
Is Charles
Basin
Is
Galahad
Is
Jack Spicer
Is
Charles Basin
Dead?

Charles Basin is waiting at the bar.

2 comments:

  1. this is really wonderful. esp. the "what it is" refrain.

    don't you live in ireland? do the irish watch american baseball, or did you just find an article mentioning players' names? you don't have to answer if it spoils the secrets of poetry.

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  2. hahah nah man i was in the states thru last summer and I saw a Giants/Dodgers game in SF and was thinking bout it -

    I watch a lot of american sports, mostly baseball and hockey (lets go Pens! :P) (the odd game of football too!) but thats relatively unusual over here

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