Reviving the Art of Baseball Doggerel
In the spring time’s ease
There will be vegan baseball
And the burning breeze
The gloves escape their leather
The bats leave their beatings
As blows burn the batters’ skin
And the field is flocked
Maybe the pitchers can beat the base hits
Or the hitters will all run home
Anthony David Vernon is a fan of the Florida Marlins (not the Miami Marlins) and is still mad the Marlins let Miguel Cabrera go!
Another spring,
The chickadees sing,
Time for crocuses, baseball, silly things.
What a relief—
To think of Mike Trout
Instead of Dorito Mussolini,
And the only judge who matters is Aaron.
What’s Opening Day?
A momentary respite
from all life’s troubles
No one can stop a home run.
No one can understand what it really is,
unless you have felt it
in your own hands and body.
As the ball makes its high, long arc
beyond the playing field,
the diamond and the stands suddenly
belong to one man.
In that brief, brief time,
you are free of all
demands and complications.
Oh-for-whatever
an existential crisis
Devers at the plate
