Basketball Poems
Basketball's My Favorite Sport
by Kenn Nesbitt
Basketball's my favorite sport.
I dribble up and down the court.
The ball goes bouncing off my toes
and beans the teacher on the nose.
He stumbles back and grabs his nose
and hits the wall and down he goes.
The other players stop and stare.
They've never heard the teacher swear.
With no one playing anymore,
I grab the ball. I shoot. I score.
......
Loony Bin Basketball
by Mary Karr
For Phil Jackson
The gym opened out
before us like a vast arena, the bleached floorboards
yawned toward a vanishing point, staggered seats high
as the Mayan temple I once saw devoured by vines.
Each of us was eaten up inside — all citizens of lost
and unmapped cities.
Frank hugged the pimply ball
......
Basketball's My Favorite Sport
by Kenn Nesbitt
Basketball's my favorite sport.
I dribble up and down the court.
The ball goes bouncing off my toes
and beans the teacher on the nose.
He stumbles back and grabs his nose
and hits the wall and down he goes.
The other players stop and stare.
They've never heard the teacher swear.
With no one playing anymore,
I grab the ball. I shoot. I score.
......
Loony Bin Basketball
by Mary Karr
For Phil Jackson
The gym opened out
before us like a vast arena, the bleached floorboards
yawned toward a vanishing point, staggered seats high
as the Mayan temple I once saw devoured by vines.
Each of us was eaten up inside — all citizens of lost
and unmapped cities.
Frank hugged the pimply ball
......
