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Game 29

12/29/2015

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​CHI 104               TOR 97
Basketball is Like Music - Part 1

Basketball is like music
In lots of little ways.

Here’s one:

Big fish leave small ponds.

The best players forever--
Neighborhood legends--
Leave their neighborhoods
To find their familiars.

And suddenly,
Most of them
Are not the best
Anymore.

They are regular sized fish
In regular sized ponds.

And for some of them
It’s devastating--

Mommy had told them
They were special,
And they had believed her.

For others, though,
It’s comforting--

A welcome relief
From the pressure
Of greatness.

A chance to be normal.

And for others still
It is fuel--

And they are racecars--
Revving their engines
And l
istening for
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