Friday, October 26, 2012

stoop kid

Press your eyes and against the fin of Asia
The game is long and the regulars are routes into both sides
                                   --overseas, even the troupes are rallyin'
                                         "and where have you been?" The balls,
                                             you know, the perfect pitches
                   In the throes of something or other, imagining
               those perfect pitchers
       Yet passion, still, is foreign words
    And only glass supposed upon glass
reveals his lupine herds

The sauce, he says, is not an embellishment anymore,
                                       brings life back to arthritic fingers
                                   Not to mask or enhance his taste,
                              but to bring out the true flavors,
                  to return the scheme to a sense of
                                                                      Normal, Natural
          --perfect moments are found mostly
       at the bottom, or halfway down

    The balls, of these people
       Give them something they're under
                                  Something to remember
                                          Something to lose and pine for
                                     Cover the mirrors in your blank room
--all you'll see are things you don't need
--things you don't want to look at
--all looks you don't think to need
                              I haven't figured anything out
                           and the stories still have no endings
                       but the beginnings seem right

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