(James Joyce's line from "Portrait of Artist As A Young Man," referring to
young boys on playing field and their "rude feet" haunts here. As Sunday 3PM
match up in football's World Cup approaches. America versus Iran. Little
doubt political intrigue all about. Will American's watch, not for sport
particularly.)
Politics reduced to football.
But then one might try and reduce it all
to poetry terms.
Grassy plane. Two teams as usual.
Fantasy versus reality on a rectangular field,
with the object of driving the ball
(metaphor) into the reader's brain.
The poem is controlled and advanced
primarily by using the feet.
(That's the way I write.)
All that is needed to write
being an area of open space and a pen.
Here, the pen is an inflated sphere
with an outer covering usually made of leather.
It is 27 to 28 in (68 to 71 cm)
in circumference and weighs
14 to 16 oz (396 to 453 g).
Poets' shoes may have studs, or cleats,
across the soles.
Shin guards are compulsory,
but no other protective equipment is permitted.
Poets on the wing with striped shirt,
wild expression on face,
the crowd cheering.
Ernest Slyman
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