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Baseball's Gone Dark

It's the top of the first inning Fans 'still filing into the park' Tho' the game's now beginning It's quiet, you can hear in the dark For the fans are made out of cardboard They're propped up in the front rows No cheers, no boos; they can't keep score No "Beer here" either; they've got no dough On nearby streets, no one's in the taverns The empty stadium's a giant cavern The ballpark's a cemetery, morbid, funereal Made for 2020, strange and surreal

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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Date: 8/25/2020 11:25:00 AM
I saw clips of that on the news, where there are cardboard cutouts in the seats - how peculiar! Your last stanza so desolate and haunting, a mirror of these strange times indeed-
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/25/2020 2:23:00 PM
The weirdness of it all has started to weigh on me. Oh, well... One adjusts to anything. :) gw
Date: 8/24/2020 8:13:00 PM
Such a strange time...covid hits the weirdness out of the park!
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Date: 8/25/2020 2:18:00 PM
Hey, hey! You just hit a grand-slam home run with that comment, Kim. Thanks, Gershon
Date: 8/24/2020 6:48:00 PM
G'day Gershon ... it was similar to Aussie Rules football, but now some states are allowing up to thirty thousand into a game. It's strange without crowd noise - sad sign of the times Gershon - Lindsay
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Gershon Wolf
Date: 8/24/2020 7:24:00 PM
Yup. On radio and TV, they play canned applause. Sometimes they don't get it right or they mis-coordinate it, and it's hilarious. That's the deal today. :) gw

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