by Paul Kocak
The oracles erred:
Not-so-great expectations
“Suhwwiinng and a miss”
(Cue Kuiper)
It’s a year of the Yaz
And razzmatazz
A Wade into wonder
Hitting in the pinch
Going for the clinch
They might be Giants
Indeed they are
Homer-ic team-sters
An arc of anonymity
Pining for posterity:
LaStella oh so stellar
Longo launching long ones
Into Baseball’s Starry Night
Posey, Belt, and Crawford
Renascence Men
Solano Flores Bryant
Rogers Disco McGee
Watson Wood Webb
Gausman Casali Garcia
Duggar Cueto Slater
Dickerson Doval Dubón
Littell Leone Quintana
And Kazmir redux!
On and on
Names forgotten?
No matter.
A roster
For Gabe Kapler
O captain our captain
Anonymous
Synonymous
With eponymous
Giants
Ever and anon.
Twenty
Twenty-one
Fun salute.
Paul Kocak is the author of Baseball’s Starry Night and World Serious, as well as the poetry collections Rounding Third and Tipp Hill Litanies.