[New-Poetry] only football (American) poem I know

[Edward Byrne]

Nice Timing. I have an article about this poem and the Super Bowl
currently on the VPR "One Poet's Notes" blog, although I add that I will
be rooting for the Giants:

http://edwardbyrne.blogspot.com/

--Ed
 
 

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Edward Byrne
Department of English
322 Huegli Hall
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso, IN 46383-6493

E-mail: edward.byrne at valpo.edu
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>>> <JforJames at aol.com> 02/03/08 3:33 PM >>> 
Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
 
In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long  beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at  Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of  heroes.
 
All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home.
Their women cluck like  starved pullets,
Dying for love.
 
Therefore, 
Their sons grows suicidally beautiful
At the beginning of  October,
And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies.  
 
--James Wright

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Go Pats!
Finnegan



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