Category Archives: Sports



Gino’s Sneakers

Down at the paddle tennis courts, Gino,
A daily presence softly manages.
He trains males and shapely girls, swift and slow—
Teaching, while minimizing damages.
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Posted in Local Color, Sports, Vanity

At the Gym-V

Melissa (although we all call her Mel)
Guards the gate down at our Marina Club.
Her ready smile and pungent wit dispel
The gloom we often bear, facing the drudge Continue reading →

Posted in Beauty, Sports

Life—The Tragedy

When you’ve grown too old
For movies and TV—
When the BBC News at Five
And the promise of a ballgame Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Sports, Today's News

Juju

Three times, within a month, I watched my team
Floundering as that relentless clock ticked
Toward doom. Three times (with barely suppressed scream)
I switched off, bedded myself, afflicted Continue reading →

Posted in Sports

Found Poetry IV

Larger than life, and way colder than death,
Ted Williams, in Scottsdale, Arizona,
Famously resides, pickled, without breath,
In liquid nitrogen—chilled to the bone. Continue reading →

Posted in Death, Sports

Monday Night Football

We’re old now, just three of us (since Wally
Died). Two hundred forty years sit here—deaf,
Half blind—playing out our brittle folly,
Possessed. Each Monday night the host plays chef Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Friends, Sports