Wednesday, February 29, 2012

You Did Say Abbott and Costello, Didn't You?


“That person”, that demonstrative impersonal 
Third person singular who’s lost

His identity, why would anybody speak 
Of himself like that? 

In the first place, you might ask 
Who is going to answer? 

In the second—man oh man forget it— 
Here comes the Babe 

Who’s just cleaned the bases and is now
Rounding third, headed for home! 

2 comments:

  1. Identity, the one possession it's always a pleasure to shed ...and here's "that person" himself, unselfconsciously risen to move among us, rounding third like Lazarus, yet in the next moment down again on the common ground, unconscious... knocked out by a wall, of all people.

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  2. Fine poem, wonderful photos--what a slugger he was and that's how we should all remember him.

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