Game 64

CHI 105                SA 116

Baker Park
Evanston, Illinois
1986

Me and my friends
Imitating our heroes

“Jordan….”
“Magic…”
“Doctor...”

Called out hopefully--
Expectantly--
By imaginary announcers
As shots leave hands

We are them

Until another group of boys shows up

Blond hair
Braces
Clean kicks

A few years older
A lot less Jewish

Laughing
They challenge us

Knowing
As older boys will
Their dominance.

Confusing it
As rich kids do
For superiority

They too
Imagine themselves

“Celtics!”
At every pass
”Celtics!”

Barely dribbling

Laughing
Joyously
At the little kids
They were beating