Babe

Oh, Babe Pitched for the price of infamy’s name Springtime sold For the tempest of a bambino’s bane Oh, Babe Stadium-made gregarious grin Pinstripe promises Playing for shoddy orphaned kids Oh, Babe Squeezing pine tar calloused veins Slugging sunshine Into brokenhearted pennant panes Oh, Babe Champagne on championship ice Swinging splendor Diamond dames batting bullpen eyes Oh, Babe Sultan of summer-simmering swat Brawny blasts Feasting on Yankee dugout brauts Oh, Babe Slumped over metastasized mic Scratchy soliloquy Imbued on replayed records of life Oh, Babe Pointing to ostentatious October sky Homerun heaven Where George Herman Ruth resides