Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Fred Chappell - "Junk Ball"

By the time it gets to the plate
it's got weevils and termites.

Trying to hit Wednesday with a bb gun.

Sunday.

Or curves like a Chippendale leg or
flutters like a film unsprocketed or
plunges like Zsa Zsa's neckling or
sails away as coy as Shirley Temple

(or)

Not even Mussolini could make
the sonofabitch arrive on time.

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