(how the poem doesn't spare you)
e.g. if he'd fallen to the right
instead of the left and hit his head
would he still have scored an own-goal
or woken up one morning from the coma
is critical in criminal sportswriting.
In the hospital. Always nasty.
People dying. Don't try it.
Ah, but he net is always waiting. Wonderful.
ReplyDeleteYou are kind, James. Just a little meditation on formal thinking. Then (I hope) a smooth entry.
Deleteif he'd dressed to the left...
ReplyDeleteif his fly were undone ...
if his undies were still on the line
DeleteA night on the town
of a very different sort
right below the belt