Formation

breaking

By Harper Lewis Published about a month ago • 1 min read

Met a four yesterday, but

I’d been drinking,

thought he was a seven.

Eleven men per side,

field a perfect 22 waiting

for the shotgun, stars (on helmets)

and bars (on refs),

whistles and flags,

game clocks and play clocks,

Gators and Gamecocks,

Tigers, Rebels, Bulldogs,

and more Volunteers

than you can ride a Crimson Tide on.

Here comes the snap.

Ekke Ekke Ekke Ekke Ptang Zoo Boing!

Intrusive rhyme bothers me, except as a weapon.

Intertextuality is my passion.

Formalist/ New Critical are my guiding theories.

My words are mine, not a robot’s.

MA English literature, CofC

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