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Game 59

2/27/2015

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CHI 96               MIN 89

Sitting at the dinner table,
Want to watch but I’m not able.
Hopefully I’ll catch the end,
So I can help my team to win.
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Game 58

2/25/2015

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CHI 86               CHA 98

A New Orleans funeral march
is a strange thing

Happiness in sadness--
Sickening and comfortable
Deep tradition

2nd line

Dancing 
on misangled knees 
Herky jerky
like a crip walk

Through
a city--
drowning

Waiting for a savior
who just never
seems to come
all the way
back.

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Game 57

2/23/2015

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CHI 87               MIL 71



Two Haikus about Tony Snell
By Stacy King
He’s making it hard
For Thibbedeaux to divide
Up all the minutes.


I’m tellin’ you, Neil--
If you give this kid minutes,
He’s gonna produce.


My mother likes Tony Snell
Because of how he looks--


"So beautiful.
Like an Ethiopian prince."

I think this really means

she likes
How black he is.

I once challenged her
to learn the name
of one 

white
Bulls player.

She chose Pau Gasol--
From Spain.

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Game 56

2/21/2015

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CHI 112               PHX 107

Fourth Quarter--
Down.
On a slow path to victory.

War-wearied soldiers
Watching their reinforcements--

Recognized by the seams in their uniforms--
The shine in their boots--
The hunger in their bellies.

Striking range.

There is no more glory
in defeating
than in outlasting.

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Game 55

2/20/2015

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CHI 91               DET 100

Trade deadline.

A weary mid-westerner,
Named for a hero
Of someone else’s yesterday.

Reggie Jackson
Prepares to step closer to the spotlight--
To emerge from the shadows.

Meanwhile--
A home-coming.

Tayshaun

No fanfare.
It isn't in him--
Never was.

In suits--
On sidelines--
Just before.


Potential energy
Bubbling.

Turning kinetic.
Rising like waves--
Overcoming us.

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