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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

N F L Sparrow


National Football League Sparrow Poem

Dave Duerson sat next to me on a plane.
A massive hero in a first class seat.
Stewardess offers him Cristal Champagne,
writing notes in my moleskin, I refrain.

Raise the armrest, as I am bantam freight.
He chuckles at the gesture as a giant,
brushes the laptop as if dust holds weight.
Conversation digs into complaint.

Dave desires to share early history
perhaps book, or memoir of his childhood,
not the NFL, the stand-up story,
before a brute American manhood.

When NFL ends violence in play,
hear stadiums full cheer another day.


Caroline Gerardo ©  copyright 12/20/2017



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