A poem about Max Scherzer’s 1926 funeral Mass in Chicago and a brief and frankly daft philosophical essay addressing why there’s such thing as a poem about the 1926 Chicago funeral Mass of Max Scherzer, who in reality is thankfully alive and well and was born in 1984

September 10, 2021October 5, 2022 Dayn Perry

When we ponder death, we console ourselves with the knowledge that we weren’t around 40, 50, 80 years prior and were not then troubled by that prevailing oblivion. Why, then, should future oblivion bedevil us? The poet Philip Larkin, among … Continue reading A poem about Max Scherzer’s 1926 funeral Mass in Chicago and a brief and frankly daft philosophical essay addressing why there’s such thing as a poem about the 1926 Chicago funeral Mass of Max Scherzer, who in reality is thankfully alive and well and was born in 1984

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Willie McCovey can drive from here to anyplace else in no more than two hours and 48 minutes

August 18, 2021October 29, 2022 Dayn Perry

Willie McCovey has long believed that The cartographers are blind to possibility. Their learned embroideries bring out The interstates, the arterial highways with The color of the northern cardinal in nesting season. The remainder they leave to less arresting hues. … Continue reading Willie McCovey can drive from here to anyplace else in no more than two hours and 48 minutes

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Mark Langston is suffering from multiple European emotional malaises all at once

May 13, 2021May 13, 2021 Dayn Perry

Mark Langston is fully aware that it is deeply civilizing to lie down on the floor at one’s place of work. Yet this is not why he splays himself out, oil on canvas, upon the uncaring soil. He is further … Continue reading Mark Langston is suffering from multiple European emotional malaises all at once

Stream of Consciousness2 Comments

A brief stream of consciousness regarding Chuck Hartenstein’s 1977 Topps card

February 5, 2021February 18, 2021 Dayn Perry

Your chest hits the hood of the Buick Electra before your gut does when the state trooper slams you upon it which makes you think you’re in fine shape you weren’t right about that but you weren’t so wrong that … Continue reading A brief stream of consciousness regarding Chuck Hartenstein’s 1977 Topps card

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Greek Myth: Why Fernandus of Rodney wanders the forest forevermore

January 2, 2021January 7, 2021 Dayn Perry

The commoners of the Greek empire turned to mythos to explain the natural processes that befuddled them. So they asked Sloppamedes, the village elder who carried the full freight of their oral tradition, yet another question: “Wise and sagacious Sloppamedes, … Continue reading Greek Myth: Why Fernandus of Rodney wanders the forest forevermore

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Unlike you, Bill Greif just wants to relax and listen to some music

February 29, 2020February 29, 2020 Dayn Perry

Bill Greif will maybe at some point get around to giving a damn about what you’re telling him, but, brother man, it won’t be today. Not while the beer’s cold and not in light of the quality of the last … Continue reading Unlike you, Bill Greif just wants to relax and listen to some music

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Doug Jones did not ask for this fire

November 21, 2019November 22, 2021 Dayn Perry

Doug Jones did not ask for this fire. He did not volunteer for the strains of harnessing it. This is why he regards this fire like the severed thumb he once found in the nearby old growth forest. He is … Continue reading Doug Jones did not ask for this fire

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Selected Lyrics from Pedro Martinez’s Country Music Album

August 3, 2019August 4, 2019 Dayn Perry

In 2003, wildcatter archivists in West Texas made a compelling discovery in a fireproof safe that had been buried behind a storefront farmer’s co-op. That discovery was a series of four-track musical recordings by pitching legend Pedro Martinez. Unbeknownst to … Continue reading Selected Lyrics from Pedro Martinez’s Country Music Album

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Ichiro’s Swing

January 30, 2019September 1, 2022 Dayn Perry

The front leg bends back like a bough Before it snaps in a boy’s hands. The cleats stomp shallow hollows into the clay As the belt buckle rolls toward sundown. The elbow strokes the ribs, The bottom arm locks tetanus … Continue reading Ichiro’s Swing

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Sparky Anderson was born this way

August 9, 2017September 5, 2022 Dayn Perry

At birth, Sparky Anderson was 5-foot-9, 170 pounds. Those dimensions would not change. The delivery was almost too much even for his prairie-stock mother, who frowned while sleeping. “I counted the seconds,” she told him years later. “Thought about each … Continue reading Sparky Anderson was born this way

BASEBALL GENRES

A hootenanny of futile efforts