People always ask me what was your best catch
I say that time in the parking lot when I was walking
toward the car with my back to Jimmy and I hear him yell
'Hey Lee catch!' and I know he's not kidding
he both can/cannot be trusted
so I snap around real fast
and track a shape coming towards me take
half a step stick out my hand low and right
slap into my palm, pure instinct and
I've caught this baseball just before it was gonna hit the
rear lights on the car
Mikey's car
JFK Terminal 4 after our flight
where Mikey'd kindly come to pick us up
and I'm like Jimmy man, what if that had smashed
his ****ing lights man?! are you crazy
but I knew the answer to that already
Jimmy thought of himself
as the challenging Cato
to my bumbling Clouseau
(one for the teenagers)
And where the hell did this baseball come from?
Jimmy'd spotted it in the gutter and picked it up,
bent out of shape, thinks/didn't think
I know what my sporty friend would like
now we're here in the ****ing USA
'Hey Lee catch!' and god damn if
Lee didn't spin around and snatch it out of nowhere
like a champ and 40 years later
he's still talking about it
Even though he used to play cricket
like a pretend English gentleman and
took plenty of catches in his time
Mikey sighed: Come on guys
you haven't even been here five minutes yet
but we knew he loved it, Jimmy
and Lee were back to light up his life
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