Boston
(With apologies to Langston Hughes)
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it fade in the night,
like a homer into the screen?
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Or succumb to the pressures
of a Big Red Machine?
Does it sit on the bench
with a cast on its wrist?
Or harp on the play
which the umpire missed?
Maybe it just says
"Wait till next year"
Or does it disappear?
Wednesday night the dream disappeared. Joe Morgan hit a Texas Leaguer into short center and like the ringing of a 7 a.m. phone slowly ascending the stairs, creeping through the door and under the pillow, the dream ended.
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