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Just putting it all together past with present for April, 2025 poetry month.

The easiest think in the world between 21 and 26
Adrenaline spent
Basketballs flung
From all the negativity
That could be shoveled on my feet
Gave me strength and desire to leap.

I really don’t know what else to say
I had my hey day
Vented, grew taller
From the closet in my room
In the middle of June
Idolized a muscled green scientist
Who has a reason to rage
When I found a talent releasing me from cage.

All penned me in before I hooped,
Regrouped
Words still moot.
I played with all the love I had
One by one given reasons to be mad
Lifted my self up, rather than mad
I learned to trust the legs that I had.

No trophies, no images or film,
A highlight reel
Showing kids in the gym
Inspired a few, made myself prouder
Rather than be the meeker failing to yell louder

Why am I ashamed
For a gift that gave
You say in my 20s my ignorance behaved.
If you, prick, I bleed
You did not need to act as foe
With a ball, always ready, I’d go.

Lifted myself in ways no one can.
I gave my best
Now I rest
Done lifting my tongue
What good has it done
Grounded by peers, apathy, growing fears
As it’s nearing late
And I have to be home in an hour.


4.3.25
Not editing, or nothing. 10 minutes of me flatulating.

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Just putting it all together past with present for April, 2025 poetry month.
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