poem “entire town’s baseball team”, a poem about how a father, along with all of his cousins from one family, made to the entire town’s baseball team, By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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entire town’s baseball team
Janet Kuypers
4/25/15
I never played baseball
when I grew up,
didn’t watch it on tv
when I was little.
But when my dad was young,
while his aunt had fifteen kids,
he and his cousins
were the entire town’s baseball team.
Now dad is older,
he sits in his chair
and watches the Cubs
or the White Sox on tv.
And even though
I never saw him play
thinking of him and his cousins
being the entire town’s baseball team
even give me
fond memories.

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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team (in the chapbook “Bases Loaded”) 4/26/15 (C) at Chicago’s 2015 Poetry Bomb (at Wrigley Field) filmed with a Canon Power Shot

See YouTube video of the Janet Kuypers 4/26/15 show “Bases Loaded” just outside Wrigley Field at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago (filmed with a Canon Power Shot), of poems relating to baseball - including this poem

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“Bases Loaded”
w/ poems read on 4/26/15 at the 2015 Poetry Bomb in Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon fs200)

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Entire Town’s Baseball Team live 4/29/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago (Canon Power Shot)

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