is it is true as it seems
ganguly reads
in the weather
3 orange
flowers shadows
the nice ones claim that
proust is a find he has
the best hands in the game
attacks the pitch of the      ball
art aspires to the condition
of sport seam barely visible

II

___________
________________s
t________
eve Waugh is not is
black orange 3 was
orange is not is 3 white
young adults on
the train weep into
a full page ad feat.
steve Waugh
                  for     super

i practice my drives
as i walk down
king william st
this whole city exists only
so that the adelaide oval
may exist time shreds away
and runs
are just a consequence
of being
seagulls score
poddy mullets out glenelg

II

channel 9 the
tv knows everything
dravid sinks australias heart
there are were
wolves on the hill at 3rd slip
langer has a laconic stance drive
a bullock dray into dimboola
uber mullets seagulls
on the big screen remember
how they will occupy the
crease in the end

laxman sinks
into the crease laxman
is long & stretchy
dravid is all crouchy and
bent perfect angles
his arms make a perfect
diamond his wrists are gold
drive into dimboola
attacked the pitch camp
like god overnight
batted like god

II

as williams gladiates
across the field
there is a base instinct
in me that cannot bare
to see the team lose the tv
remembers everything vvs laxman
sinks like an australian heart
into the crease a superstar
his bat
orbits him in perfect arcs
from 2nd slip

at tura beach for boxing day lunch
faith shreds away in no time the tv
knows nothing of the games syntax
man a kierkegaard knight
on the second
morning late order batting
succumbs to
ford
pressure
kierkegaard
air ford ford

II

loves her fords &
her cricket the wickets
will fall when the ford logos
are on display
the ads are in the
atmosphere over my left breast
there is a temporary tattoo
of an australian flag you can
feel it in the free air
the wickets will fall when the ford
logos are on display

matthew hayden drives
into ford territory
a boy in speedos plays
a cover drive off the back
foot a new stand takes root boy
in brightly coloured speedos
drives on the up
off the front foot he is a syntax man
a distribution of elements that
form sense and well being
at the crease a boy

II

a distribution of antiperspirants
ford sense & the games syntax
creased takes guard sets
it up for the decider
in sydney at the end of
an era ford & rexona
like my wife justin
langer has the most
beautiful face there is already
a century floating in her eyes a
new members stand takes root

lights go out
____
cold out
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played
_
at nighttime nothing thin nighttime
laxman is long
10 is not
is longer

II

is steve waugh playing
i didnt even know steve was
playing im just here to
see the cricket tear
their flesh & rip their
bones apart amid a sea
of red bunting macgill
is sleeping or thinking of horses
territory marked out in chalk
strange ads take root
in the atmosphere

marked out
in his eyes justins
hundred was good
from the start ganguly
reads a hundred in
the feet of simon
katich cover the territory drive
at the boundary rope sheds
a tear for a pierced cricket field
& a futile chase after a thin thin
nighttime

II

50 50s seagulls & mullets
45000 small red squares
circle the field repeating
the boundary rope
the innings syntax is
super steve holes out to
tendulkar on the boundary
rope i don’t want the world
i want you but at nighttime nothing
steve waugh is not is
no longer