[New-Poetry] The only football poem I know

[Jeff Newberry]

Gary Gildner has a poem called "First Practice."


FIRST PRACTICE

After the doctor checked to see
we weren't ruptured,
the man with the short cigar took us
under the grade school,
where we went in case of attack
or storm, and said
he was Clifford Hill, he was
a man who believed dogs
ate dogs, he had once killed
for his country, and if
there were any girls present
for them to leave now.

No one
left. OK, he said, he said I take
that to mean you are hungry
men who hate to lose as much
as I do. OK. Then
he made two lines of us
facing each other,
and across the way, he said,
is the man you hate most
in the world,
and if we are to win
that title I want to see how.
But I don't want to see
any marks when you're dressed,
he said. He said, Now.



Jeff Newberry

On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:34 PM, <AlMaginnes at aol.com> wrote:

>  James Dickey had a poem called "In the Pocket" (which may have been
> commissioned by the NFL) and another called "The Bee," which recalled his
> football days at Clemson. And Randall Jarrell, I think, had a poem about the
> death of Big Daddy Lipscomb.
>
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