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Poetry Drafts / 19 December 2022

Pitching to the Batter

I will ask them if they enjoy baseball
and the swing of the bat;
I will tell them we went clubbing
seals for fun in our youth,
I will ask them if they enjoy baseball
if they realise their likeness to cubs;
I will ask them kindly, before I swing
the bat.

About The Author

Hayden Veil

In an earlier incarnation, Hayden Veil enjoyed a successful career in software engineering, writing late-night poetry in pursuit of sanity. On 2 February 2020, the world of Hayden Veil changed: Ghosts became real and with its soul laid bare there was no turning back from the perpetual path of poetry.