Thursday, April 21, 2011

Geoffrey Young - "George Brett / October 14, 1976"

ABC thought it was what we wanted to see
the side of the coin
that didn't turn up
as last night that white voyeuristic eye
came to lick sweat

in your Kansas City clubhouse
plunged into the finality
of all that lost sweetness
it hurt

You hurt

You said, There's nothing to say, really,
when you lose, the team loses,
when you win, it's the team that wins

A hopeless Warner Wolf at last
got sensitive
to the numb gloom of the Almost
as his every useless question
outraged the manhood
of a nation

George Brett, the tears
in your eyes



Baseball I Gave You All The Best Years of My Life
Edited by Richard Grossinger and Lisa Conrad

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