Category: sports
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a modest proposal
This morning I saw flocks of crows hanging out on equipment abandoned in a swamp and then I thought maybe they missed the flight for their yearly winter Caribbean vacation It was cold and rainy and then I thought wouldn’t it be nice if the folks who do genetic engineering bred GMO black crows with…
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Presidential primary races
Pawing at the starting gate waiting for the bell the snap of the gate The run to rail Huge hearts bursting hooves pounding down the stretch a race to the front Jockeys stand in stirrups one horse stumbles another one falls the pile grows Jockeys flung headlong mud hoof prints on silk blood on a…
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a moody Monday morning meditation
Lie in bed luxuriate in folding rhythms of rain on roof Feel the ache of bleacher buns from a youth soccer weekend And try to decide if hospitals and hotels use the same chef For hospital food and free hotel breakfasts to remove the flavor and goodness 11-18-19
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Coaching Soccer on Elysium Fields
I still think of you and wonder if I had been home when you came by and if we had talked, things might be different but I wasn’t home and we never spoke Last night, I watched an artist paint a skeleton face on pavement at a street festival and had to leave because you…
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