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one, two, three
strikes you’re out

Janet Kuypers
4/25/15

I really struck out with them...
I tried 3 times,
and yeah, it was 1, 2, 3 strike you’re out,

but I was really hoping to at least
steal a base.
Maybe they’re a switch hitter —

but if that’s the case, are they
pitching or
catching? Though if I struck out,

it would probably be just my luck
that they’d be
playing for the other team.

That’s what I get for trying to score
a home run
when I never checked out their stats.


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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem One, Two, Three Strikes You’re Out (in the chapbook “Bases Loaded”) 4/26/15 (C) at Chicago’s 2015 Poetry Bomb (at Wrigley Field) filmed with a Canon Power Shot
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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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