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What a Ball Player!
by Jeff Brown → (All Poetry by Jeff Brown)
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Athletes . . . amen. Let us worship.

 




Announcers leave their home's

just to rap kinesthetic, wrap their
tongues about a Herculean
wonderland of swoosh, crack,
thump, whap, pop,
a boisterous
chorus of blubbering ballyhoo.


Mmmm-my he’s the most human,
human to ever 
turn a neck, blink,
butter a pancake and blah de
blah.
Oh my! He’s got two arms
and a couple of legs!

Can you handle it?

You’ve got to be there
to feel the DNA.



Can suck down a six-pack

in a single breath.
National home creosote remover
has ‘em standing in the aisles.

And what a pre-game show!

Puts tar on a bat, hand in a glove, feet on the ground . . .

How does he done, did, do it? 
 

Former womb resident.  He’s out-a-there!

Now makes ‘em howl with wood and leather.

And the creosote in his chimney? You try and find some.

He’s kissing babies, climbing into men’s wombs, succor, suck or excel.

He’s manned the heart breach under sagging metaphysical sigh.

He’s, he’s . . . the Guy who’s replaced the proverbial why

with summer wizardry. The eternal gentleman
of swoosh, crack, thump, whap, pop.


 


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 Reviews of "What a Ball Player!"
Reviewed by Chris Wright
Reviewed on January 24, 2008
Hilarious! & definitely a great take on the great hype we give atheletes who are still very much mortal like us all. Keep Balling Man!

Reviewed on January 16, 2008
Striking... "What a Ball Player!" shines.

In admiration,

Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on January 14, 2008
Think you caught a home run with this one. Listen to the crowd roar....

Be safe,
Karen


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