What is its Name?

A shadow is a shadow
but what is its name?
I call mine Bubba Ho-Tep
like that Bruce Campbell film.

A cloud is a cloud,
but what is its name?
The one above me I have
named Predator 2.

What would you call those
spy balloons over North
America? I call each one
The Spy Who Loved Me.

I feel so deflated some
days that I do not have
the mind coordination
to come up with any name. 

August 4, 1993: The Ryan Express vs. Robin Ventura

What were you thinking, Robin Ventura, charging the Ryan Express after being hit by a pitch? If not, for that charge to the mound, my brother Juan would not have made that frame, the photo cut out from the sports page. Ryan had you in a headlock with his fist about to give you one of the many noogies…