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
posted February 25, 2004
writing 10/17/03 13:30 to
13:40
Edited 10/20/03, to change
yankee to Puritan
Arthur
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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