Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2007 - 2:31 p.m.
Silence is Golden, a DVD is Silver
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"It's here" he whispered
patting a lump on his pocket
"Now you will see what the difference is
between nambly-pamby and authentic"
I had no idea
what he was talking about
but said a all knowing
...... " Great "
hoping he would actually reveal
what he was so excited about
in the next few senteces
He reached into his pocket
and pulled out a DVD thast had
a lot of neatly drawn stars on it
and held it tenderly, meaninfully
as if it was damning FBI evidence
from the World Trade towers
My first thought was
oh no.. its porn.!!
But bossman was not a likely candidate
for such cheap shot eyeball parties
and if he was
he would know Im not
a candidate for pixil meat
so WTF was it that was so special?
The Muppets do Brokeback Mountain?
... it was much worse
The Greatest basball game in human history
the Montreal Expos VS somebody
sometime in the 80s..
before my time
before recorded time
before good old 911
made Sept 11 a day of guilty indifference
"Where did you score that gem?" I asked
he got it on the internet..
sheesh it sounded
like a disease
he got in Thailand
I congratulated him for the scoop
while mentally rehearsing
as many excuses to not watch it as I could
retro sports is as unattractive as it gets
whats the idea there?
Bossman is Buddist..
deep thinker
good citizen
kind to animals
ready to reincarnate
as a better being
who won;t have to put up with me
Now I knew he had
a murky fascination with baseball
just to keep his hand in temporal reality
but to go so far
as to hunt down a DVD version
of some ball game
he had seen in real time
20 plus years ago
just to relive it again ?
Like if he was paying attention
he would have remembered who won
maybe he wanted to see himself in the crowd
or that day twigged some wonderful memories
whatever it was
it is very special to him'
and he is looking for someone
to re-live it all with..
I guess his wiccan pagan femmist wife
will never watch an old ballgame with him
his dogs just see in black & white
his neibours are East Indian
and probably prefer cricket
I hope he can find someone
who will do his memory gland justice
and ride in his de je vu rocket into inner space
I wonder what the connection is
between
Buddism and baseball?
Is there one?
are there several?
Is it one and the same thing?
they both seem
eternally boring
three strikes
and you're out in baseball
with Buddism
its whatever strikes
until you make a hit
a home run is the wheel of life
and you get back to where you started
and the fans are demons in rows
drinking your precious emotional energy
slurping up your very self confidence
blowing horns, screaming and wailing
throwing bits of hot dog at you
because they dont make
a million bucks a month
to wear their uniforms in public
If the public _did
make a million dollars a month
there probably still wouild be no more
art in the world
than there already is
