Monday, February 11, 2013

Improv 14 (“Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio” J. Wright)


“War and Football”
My boot camping brother said
they put a bowl on the table and
taped a “super” label to it for one
of their D.I. games (drill instructor)
football is supposed to be soccer
Why couldn’t us Americans come up
with our own name for this sport
of wrestling with helmets and running
with a ball across multi-lined grass?
My brother has to do back-flips across
logs and up a ladder, according to his
stick figure with an arrow labeled “black-flip”
another sport he finds amusing compared
to cleaning and getting punched for touching
shoes while scrubbing floors.
Why can’t feuding countries just send
their Marines to go play football?

No comments:

Post a Comment