Long Fastball Poems

Trump’s ‘Win’ “Hey, Fore!” (Now Five More)


Trump’s ‘Win’

Trump’s ‘Win’ fades (but for lives that it cost)!
Think he cops to the fact that he’s lost?
Fake News’ swill! Be prepared
for a varmint (once snared),
can be vicious as...

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I am not a politician
I have very little interest for politics 
Reminiscing on Diddy’s vote or die campaign
Rallying behind Senator John Kerry Wishing I were old enough to vote
My how things have changed
Obama’s groundbreaking history...

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Everyday when his dad came home he was waiting there
This was the special time that his dad always had to share

He taught him to throw and to catch how to swing his bat
Every game he...

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It's not easy becoming a Legendary  
Major League Baseball pitcher.
It never was and will never be.
You get put through the wringer
and hung out to dry.
From time to time you'll get little or no
run support.
You...

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I sat on the beach sifting time through my hands.
I felt like a slot machine whore.
The ocean was preaching her Siren’s demand
I abandon my past at the shore.
So, I shook off the sand, turned my...

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Who’s pitching tonight?
Him? – Oh he’ll do alright
His curveball’s so tight
Yankee Fan

Be it Clemens, Mussina or Meyers
Pettitte, Rivera, Villone
He’s willing to bet on his pitcher
Especially if pitching at home

Jeater – now he’s really something
And A...

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You're hoping for something
That'll bring you around
Better than the nothing
You've already found

Not sure you know this 
But I've news for you
Life is a meadow
You go running through

Of the world and its promises
You've had your fill
Don't...

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Bottom of the ninth and we’re down    
by two, let’s just see what our team  can do.

Here we go ladies and gentlemen,
can our team comeback and win.

Our leadoff batter is up...

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Hey! Batter! Hey, hey batter!
Hey! Batter, swing!

There is the wind up. Here comes the pitch.
Fastball, slider, curve, but which is which?
Bases are loaded, it’s up to you…
Swing for the fences! Do what you do!
No one...

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I’ve traded my final smiles for a rock and a rush..
Shooting my veins for death at thirty five.  
last chance to steal a detox from the county cause 
Everyone knows government checks don’t bounce.

Instead...

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BASEBALL IS ENTERTAINMENT 
I LOVE PUTTING ON A SHOW 
I GIVE IT MY BEST WIND-UP 
LET THAT BASEBALL GO 

SOMETHING ABOUT A STRIKE-OUT 
A FEELING THAT THINGS WENT WELL 
UNLIKE THE HOMERUN PITCH 
WHERE IT...

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Age is over rated
I went from cute and cuddly
To terribly two
In the flip of a calendar
From being inquisitive
To being nosey
From pre-teen
To A TEENAGER
Meandered
Through the military
Into construction
And against the Vegas spread
Married
And became a father
AGE
That sly bastard
Has...

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THE BIG TRAIN 
IS A COMING.
HE'S STEAMING 
IN TOWARDS TOWN.
ONE THING IS 
FOR CERTAIN.
HE'LL MOW 
SOME BATTERS DOWN.

NOW WE'RE 
TALKING BASEBALL.
WHEN BASEBALL 
WAS THE GAME.
A LEGENDARY 
PITCHER.
WHO RESIDES 
IN THE HALL OF FAME.

HE WAS SAID...

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I HAVE TO GET SOME EARLY SLEEP  
FOR TOMORROWS GAME  
I HAVE TO FACE THAT NOLAN RYAN  
HE THROWS SMOKE AND FLAME  

YOU HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION 
RYAN DON'T MESS AROUND...

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THEY SAY YOU ARE THE K-KING 
I DON'T BELIEVE A WORD 
SOMEONE SAID YOUR FASTBALL 
WAS THE BEST HE EVER HEARD 
THEY SAY YOU HAVE A FASTBALL 
THE FASTEST OF THEM ALL 
SHOW ME YOUR...

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THE PITCHER SHAKES OFF ANOTHER SIGN.
I START TO WONDER WHATS ON HIS MIND.
WITH SWEAT RUNNING OFF MY BROW,
I NEED A HIT AND I NEED IT NOW.
BASES LOADED WE'RE DOWN BY THREE.
THE GAMES OUTCOME DEPENDS ON...

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I stand on the plate with the sun in my eyes
the pitcher is ready, a fastball he flies
I swing just as hard as I possibly can
love says "strike one" as I try it again

I choke...

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Why can't people let me be me?

Why do things have to be their way on their terms?

Don't say you want me knowing damn well it's a lie.

Don't try to change me because then you truely...

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Even though none of the pitchers hablan espanol,
you have to keep the game under control.
Curve, slider, sinker, you’re the one to make the call.
Most of the time, you want a good old fastball.
It takes a...

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GAME OVER


He had taught me –
sports as a metaphor-
for life.

The inside fastball was coming -
I knew it!!!
but couldn’t get out of the way.

Damn!!!  It sent me crumbling -
painfully writhing –
stifling a curse.

The pass rush...

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Announcer: " Now he wipes the sweat from his brow,
                    for it has all come down...

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I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR THAT NOLAN RYAN. 
IN EVERY SINGLE WAY. 
I WOULD LOVE TO THINK OF THIS 
AS JUST ANOTHER DAY. 
NOLAN RYAN IS OLD SCHOOL. 
I JUST LOVE THE WAY HE PLAYS....

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I can watch them again,
grown men at a children's game,
the glory of the Show
on the TV screen.

For a while
I couldn’t watch,
knowing 
I’d been close.
A phenom  
Double A at 18
90+ fastball,
but it didn’t move.
And in...

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Alan was at a baseball park and caught   
Andy's fastball, playing catch. Unable   
to call his pal Sam tapping a bottle   
cola. 'Twas faraway, at last Sam, got ...

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Blustering snowballs, Batman,
it's cold enough to blubber

blast the titanic iceberg
from its frozen handshake.

But snowballs that ain’t
formed; fine powdery dust

billowing ‘neath the core, of not hell,
but the moat of the ice queen’s castle.

Frozen icicles, Batman,
drip from...

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