O MUSE
I will ask myself a question And I will only ask myself. Should I use “Oh Muse” or “O Muse?” I don’t really know. Perhaps I should ask the Muse: Is it—Oh or O? But the Muse will have no idea: Muse is...
View ArticleDARLING, YOU WERE WRONG
Darling, you were wrong— The truth is, I wasn’t wrong— And your wrong, it turned out, was a terrible wrong; Time was your enemy, not me; You confused an ordinary law with the law of gravity. In a few...
View ArticleMADRID CRUSADERS SHOCK THE WORLD!
Scarriet 2020 Poetry Baseball Report on the Emperor Division! Final Results! Philip’s father, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, raised his son to have “piety, patience, modesty, and distrust,” and...
View ArticleLAUREATES FIGHT OFF BANNERS TO WIN GLORIOUS DIVISION!
Nahum Tate, mocked and ridiculed as inauthentic for his popular, stage-revision, “Happy Ending” King Lear, the Poet Laureate of England 1692-1715, and one of Pope’s “dunces,” is celebrating today; the...
View ArticleSOCIETY DIVISION CHAMPS: BOSTON SECRETS
Kanye West, .267 batting avg. and 15 homers as left fielder for the Boston Secrets When you have two starting pitchers, like Plato (25-8) and Pushkin (19-5), each with 5 shutouts, it would be shocking...
View ArticleGAMERS BEAT COBRAS AND WAVES IN A RACE FOR THE AGES TO WIN PEOPLES DIVISION!
Merv Griffin told his manager Bob Hope to keep smiling and Bob Hope told his team to keep smiling, and they not only smiled, they laughed, even when they were 25-38 in early June. Then Merv Griffin...
View ArticleIN THE MODERN DIVISION, SPIELBERG AND THE UNIVERSE WIN ONE FOR THE COOL KIDS
Martin Luther King Jr was lured to the Universe by Spielberg, and won 11 games. As we look at the final division in the Scarriet Poetry Baseball League, we are joined by Henry Miller and Lawrence...
View ArticleTHE PLAYOFFS
Noel Coward, the Gamers shortstop, relaxing before Game One in Dublin against the Laureates. Welcome to the first game of the Scarriet Poetry Baseball Playoffs, and Boston, Massachusetts, home of the...
View ArticleGAME ONE RESULTS
Gerard Manley Hopkins. The soul of Madrid’s Crusaders? Banners 4 Secrets 1 Game One in Boston. John Keats hit a 3 run homer in top of the 11th inning on a 3-2 Thomas Jefferson fastball, as the Wild...
View ArticleGAME TWO RESULTS
Blaise Pascal blanks the LA Gamers in Dublin. Laureates lead series 2-0. LAUREATES 1 GAMERS 0 Bob Hope, the Gamers manager, put on a brave face after the game. “We’re going back to LA to play 3 games....
View ArticleIT WON’T LET YOU
It won’t let you write the poem,A ceiling in the leak that cries,Every minor and living disasterMoves you quickly from one thought to the next;The poem is lovely. It fliesFrom those who want it;But...
View ArticleGAME THREE RESULTS
VIRGIL WINS FOR THE BANNERS AS THEY GO UP 2-1 IN THE SERIES BANNERS 5 SECRETS 2 It was a match-up of 19 game winners—Pushkin, with 5 shut outs and 328 strikeouts versus Virgil, with 4 shut outs and...
View ArticleGAME FOUR RESULTS
BANNERS 9 SECRETS 4 The city of Florence is on the verge of a huge celebration. The no. 1 seed Boston Secrets are one game away from being eliminated by the Wild Card Banners. Guido Cavalcanti hit a...
View ArticleGAME FIVE RESULTS
Revenge. Lewis Carroll blanks the Laureates in Game 5 GAMERS 2 LAUREATES 0 Two teams were on the brink: the LA Gamers and the Boston Secrets. The Gamers were at home in Los Angeles, down 3-1, and...
View ArticleI DON’T WANT TO DO THAT
I don’t want to do this boring job, the same as this criminal, here.Yes, I want security and stability and therefore, a nice career.Those guys are fighting all the time because they’re secretly...
View ArticleGAME SIX RESULTS
The Laureates’ Aphra Behn ends the Gamers season LAUREATES 4 GAMERS 3 The four leading women home run hitters this year in the Scarriet Poetry Baseball league were Sharon Olds and Edna Millay with 33,...
View ArticleWE WONDER WHY
Do you wonder why, when the good appears,It receives censure and ridicule?The beautiful made me weak, The beautiful dumped me in a puddle of tears.To do my laborious work, I need my garden tool.How do...
View ArticleGAME SEVEN RESULT
Alexander Pushkin, no. 3 starter for the Boston Secrets John Keats hit a grand slam in the 8th inning to break a 2-2 tie, as the Florence Banners defeat the Boston Secrets 7-2 in the seventh game of...
View ArticleTHE ATHEIST DEFENDS GOD
The atheist defends God. The mind of the atheist beginsWhere the voice inside his mind began.He cannot stand to think that when he thinks of sinning, he sins.This is why he cannot doubt, and when he...
View ArticlePLAYOFFS, ROUND TWO
Erasmus, manager of the Florence Banners, ejected for questioning the umpire in game one UNIVERSE 7 BANNERS 5 As the Dublin Laureates wait in the wings to play the winner, the best of 7 series opens...
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