30/30: Golden Shovel poem #14

source: Mets Sweep Doubleheader from Phillies; Stroman Sharp
(shifting to a baseball theme for the day, headline from the Hartford Courant)

She listened to the game between the Mets

and the Phillies, wanting to sweep

her childhood feelings for the Phillies into a double-header

of lies wrapped in sugar candy and cheese steaks, from

the Phillies losing when she was a fan to the Phillies

winning when she stopped. Stroman

wore his zero, threw goose eggs, looking sharp.

 

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Here is how I am using Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.