TOM BELL

Cowboys

Cowboys with-
                  out
Good intelligence
Riding the waves,
Surfing,  spinning
Tales as a homeless
Vet
     gets up to savor
A bit of the hair that
Bit him back then.


Baseball

Baseball is a pastime men and
Boys and women
Njoy.
Take me out to the park.

That round thing,
Horsehide with red
Stitching was
Pitched to Bob Ueker
Who by fluke
Hit it Outa
Old Orchard
Borchert Park

Where I grabbed it away from the old men
In dark raincoats who
Filled the stands ten
Years before Hammerin Hank
Could play there in the bigs

Baseball is a futureime
You and I can play now.
"Here, catch!"