whoever wants to know the heart and mind of america had better learn baseball

-columbia history professor jacques baraun

three things i found out today. one-at the beginning of the last century there were over 25,000 prostitutes in new york city. two-the prizes in the cracker jacks were not put into the boxes until 1912. and three-pitchers and catchers for the rangers actually report a day earlier than i thought so...36 days until pitchers and catchers. and the last installment of my poems i wrote while visiting st. louis and the cardinals last summer.


saturday evening post story


saturday in a hotel room in st. louis
it's 3 a.m. and the walls are sinking in around me
i was sitting on the edge of the bed
one hand was on a bottle of jim bean
the other held a gun to my head

i thought i might get famous
if i could just pull the trigger
but in my darkest hour
the 50 watt light came on

my eyes were unfocused
but it seems
you were in the corner of the room
playing "take me out to the ballgame" on the violin

i giggled to myself
set the bottle down
fell back onto the bed
and passed out