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BASEBALL

Summer's sun rises
and boys fly south
to stretch.

Bats snap
knuckles crackle
and flies pop.

It's time to play.

Take me out to the ballpark
— 3Comm, QualComm, Enron —
a diamond by any other name
still sparkles

like a glinting baseball
in the sun.







By Ann Bertini
040301

LARGEREGO: Fighting the power since 1972.
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