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.
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.