CHI 66 TOR 81
It’s crazy to me
That Bairstow and Longley are friends.
What are the chances?
Now, I’ve never been to Australia,
But I imagine it bigger than that.
It is a
CONTINENT
After all--
Not a neighborhood.
Are all the tallest people
In this country
Forced,
By some all-powerful basketball zealot (Basketball Dundee),
Into skill camps
Behind locked gymnasium doors--
Waiting for Rodman’s visit?
Olympic village
Now a prison workshop
That makes baskets.
Or maybe Luc is
Like Hakeem or Luol?
Culture hero--
Mate to the entire nation.
The builder of hospitals
And ambassador to the world.
The earnest voice that
Delivers the fireside chat.
And wishes the rest of us
G’day.
That Bairstow and Longley are friends.
What are the chances?
Now, I’ve never been to Australia,
But I imagine it bigger than that.
It is a
CONTINENT
After all--
Not a neighborhood.
Are all the tallest people
In this country
Forced,
By some all-powerful basketball zealot (Basketball Dundee),
Into skill camps
Behind locked gymnasium doors--
Waiting for Rodman’s visit?
Olympic village
Now a prison workshop
That makes baskets.
Or maybe Luc is
Like Hakeem or Luol?
Culture hero--
Mate to the entire nation.
The builder of hospitals
And ambassador to the world.
The earnest voice that
Delivers the fireside chat.
And wishes the rest of us
G’day.