Arthur

Wait ‘till next year
Murmur/ Mantra in a knowing tone -
He’d seen the magic -
World Champions

Bleacher seats
Train ride
When it was our game
Before Ruth wore stripes

Sixty plus years
Puritan patience
Furrowed brow
Wistful hope

Wait ‘till next year
Warm worn cloak
I still wear
Twenty plus years hence

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edited January 21, 2016

Arthur – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/arthur-v2.html

posted February 25, 2004

writing 10/17/03 13:30 to 13:40

Edited 10/20/03, to change yankee to Puritan

Arthur

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/arthur.html

about my paternal grandfather

Arthur Leon Foss

(born 11/30/1888, died September 1978)

and his love of the Boston Red Sox

(written a year before their

2004 World Series Championship,

breaking a 84 year drought)

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