I am America's child, a spastic slogging on demented
limbs drooling I'll trade my PhD for a telephone voice.
-- Burt Lanier Safford III, "An Obscured Radiance"
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In high school in Brooklyn
I was the baseball manage
proud as I could be
I chased baseballs,
gathered thrown bats
handed out the towels Eventually, I bought my own
It was very important work but it was dark blue while
for a small spastic kid, the official ones were green
but I was a team member Nobody ever said anything
When the team got to me about my blue jacke...
