Game 48

​CHI 107               SAC 102

​For DeMarcus Cousins

Basketball players
Are more poets or painters
Than jocks.

They are dancers.
Musicians.
Improvisors.

My friend J Kite
Used to say
It was their height--

Unhideable.

Like hunchbacks
Or Siamese twins.

Their outcast status--
Their freakishness--
Seen by everybody.

Monsters--
Driven from conventional society
By torch and pitchfork

Into the only arms
Open to them.

Embracers of the surreal--
The volatile--
The absurd.

The artists.