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  1. 04-25-2012 12:25 PM #1
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    A poem about baseball for National Poem in Your Pocket Day

    Assignment #1: Write a poem about Baseball and God

    by Philip E. Burnham, Jr.

    And on the ninth day, God
    In His infinite playfulness
    Grass green grass, sky blue sky,
    Separated the infield from the outfield,
    Formed a skin of clay,
    Assigned bases of safety
    On cardinal points of the compass
    Circling the mountain of deliverance,
    Fashioned a wandering moon
    From a horse, a string and a gum tree,
    Tempered weapons of ash,
    Made gloves from the golden skin of sacrificial bulls,
    Set stars alight in the Milky Way,
    Divided the descendants of Cain and Abel into contenders,
    Declared time out, time in, stepped back,
    And thundered over all of creation:
    "Play ball!"
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  2. 04-25-2012 12:29 PM #2
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    Nice Peggy. I've never been into poetry, but I have a simple baseball poem I live by:

    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    Yankees suck
    and the Red Sox too..

    Works for me
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  3. 04-25-2012 12:43 PM #3
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    Gene Gene made a machine,
    Joe Joe made it go,
    Art Art blew a fart,
    and blew the whole damn thing apart!
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    Very Nice !!!
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    Nice Peggy. I've never been into poetry, but I have a simple baseball poem I live by:

    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    Yankees suck
    and the Red Sox too..

    Work for me
    I think this poem, Tony, taps into the existential angst wrought by post-modern anomie. As Dr. Gustav Hackfleisch so aptly said in the seminal Die Geschichtlichkeit von Texten sowie die Textualitat von Geschichte (The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History) (Little Golden Books, 2010), it probes the meta-ur-self-referentiality that so often informs the worldview of Yankees and Red Sox fans.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DurbBird View Post
    I think this poem, Tony, taps into the existential angst wrought by post-modern anomie. As Dr. Gustav Hackfleisch so aptly said in the seminal Die Geschichtlichkeit von Texten sowie die Textualitat von Geschichte (The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History) (Little Golden Books, 2010), it probes the meta-ur-self-referentiality that so often informs the worldview of Yankees and Red Sox fans.
    I agree. Especially about the Hackfleisch interpretation. Good catch.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DurbBird View Post
    I think this poem, Tony, taps into the existential angst wrought by post-modern anomie. As Dr. Gustav Hackfleisch so aptly said in the seminal Die Geschichtlichkeit von Texten sowie die Textualitat von Geschichte (The Historicity of Texts and the Textuality of History) (Little Golden Books, 2010), it probes the meta-ur-self-referentiality that so often informs the worldview of Yankees and Red Sox fans.
    Clearly that's what I was going for. Great job in catching that.
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