Re: This is how you will sit

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Rick, and others......

My Mom threw out my baseball mitt....  (Long after I'd left it behind and
gone to university, I admit...)  But I was mortified when I went upstairs to
my bedroom, and didn't find it there.....  

My mom's father had played for the Tigers.... His eldest daughter had been
killed (playing "catcher") by a baseball bat.... My mother played second
base... My brother was a catcher..... I played short stop.......

I wish I had my baseball mitt....

I know what poem I'd write in it.

Cheers,

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXO
P

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>I actually have a baseball mitt with poems scrawled in green ink all over it.
>Of course, I was the one who scrawled them there. I put the "John Keats/Put
>your scarf on" one across the fingers, and the "lemon yellow scar" one all
>over the palm (see how nicely that works?) and a bunch of Baudelaire and Eliot
>... and on my first attempt in centerfield with the wildly artistic,
>appropriated pretentious fan sentiment of a glove the ball glanced off the
>green-inked fingers and hit me in the eyeball. It hurt like bejesus squared
>and then I could only read the poems with one eye. So remember that before you
>go out and buy that red hunter's cap.
>
>rick 
>
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