Deterioration
/Once the obliques
with the most torque
and the strongest shoulder carrying
others time after time;
the first car to arrive
and the last to leave,
but now his stomach is folds of skin
and his shoulder is riddled with tears.
The numbers fans once cheered for
are stained with an asterisk
so generation after generation
ask what that punctuation mark means
and his name scrawled on balls
and posters
is all that’s left,
but can he even call it his anymore?
By Matthew McGuirk
From: United States
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