Game 5
1st Quarter
Feels like the last time you were on the floor
Took all you had and you’re having trouble
Evening the score in your own house
And now this seems like too tall of a task to face
You keep trying to avoid the screens
The pick and roll
And it feels like you spent the rest of the quarter
Trying to stay out of foul trouble
Avoid the double
And you look up and 12 minutes have passed
You are now down by 19
2nd Quarter
You’ve made your adjustments,
Got your shit together
And now you begin
To even the odds
Because you realized
That this is your house
3rd Quarter
Don’t think they won’t push back though
Don’t think for a second
They won’t press you and make you think
That you aren’t meant to win tonight
Because the opponent has the upper hand
And, in fact
You may leave here tied
And need to play two road games
Back-to-back
4th Quarter
If you give it all you have
For twelve more minutes
And put your whole heart and
Soul in it
You’ll realize that it’s not always
How you start
But how you finish
And all I need is my outstretched fingertips
To win this
Right in the Knick of time
And so we arrive at the end
Of
Game 5
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Nice! So witty and accurate to the experience, which I also had.
There’s a hiccup in this poem which I’ll correct later but I was asleep the entire 3rd quarter lol
Somehow your poems only found me today (despite my LPM check-in often during the day), and now I can’t stop reading them. I don’t even have any constructive thoughts on them or parts of them; I just love reading them and wish I had 3 volumes to read all the way through. Thanks for sharing all of these. It’s so hard to stop reading your work. What a wonderful problem to have. Your craft is deep.