Long Minor league Poems

It’s been a long time coming
But I’m still on my game 
Writing is the only outlet 
That frees me of this pain
I Talk it how I walk it
And this Walk is insane
Some days are harder...

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It is love, not loss, we expect,
we long for and belong with,
we seek within
a cooperative economic network
rather than a competitive gain-over-loss
capital-rooted value system.

Love evolves more resonantly
and robustly
than fear
and hatred
and apathy
and dispassion,
yet we have planted our...

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Maybe I’m just being petty 
let me state my case are you ready
When we first met your swagger 
made me stagger honestly 
I stammered over your use of grammar 
Like a hacker who was 
attacking...

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I was born
in October of 
   1955
One could hear 
  the World Series 
from the hospital room 
The famous series where
     the "Brooklyn Bums"
    ...

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Rosco Adagio, aka for the Cross Promotional
event that was secretly planned to get
rid of reporter hype and fakenews.
Dance floor records was named the
 place for the secet meetings.
Due to the lack of cooperation between
several minor...

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DURHAM BULLS

A triple-A minor league team,
most remember Bull Durham the movie.
I, the most spectacular firework set,
in the stormy sky. The kind of lightening show,
I think I shall never see again. The stands erupted
with screams and...

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What makes a poet?

I might be curious how the world function, but in that case
it is better to be a scientist or a cook, don’t underestimate,
when alone in the kitchen while the broth brew he...

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Went to see a minor league game 
  in the fabled borough of Brooklyn 
   Ate hot dogs at Nathan's 
then headed to Keyspan park 
   home of the Brooklyn...

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Small city arena long out of date,
that is where this B-league team plays their games,
young men learning, hopes for fortune and fame.
I watch the practice, they shoot and they skate,
remember back when I was at...

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I come through the birth canal alone but I have never really ever been alone I have knowledge man's knowledge it is substandard the words are finite I speak and spell them out but it's...

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Small stadium built in the late forties,
minor-league once, but has been left behind,
built with girders and backless, wooden seats,
a local relic of an older time.
The players look so young, barely can shave,
the pitching is rough...

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The Mets figured they already had a pitching ace.
They badly needed a competent man to play third base.
A righty and a lefty were considered better than dependable.
The management considered another right-handed pitcher expendable.
The Amazin’ Mets...

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Summer arrives and the Brooklyn Cyclones are 
in first place
Saw them the other day and they won in twelve(!)
Just spoke  to a friend 
who wants to see the Staten Island Yankees play 
Another A...

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Last Sunday 
I went to see
  a minor league game 
   took the ferry to
Staten Island with two friends 
     Nearly everyoen is reeling
from the two mass murders...

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