The Long Meadow Poem

I love retrieving stray balls Kierkegaard
longed to be useful he didn’t feel all that useful in his room thinking
about Christianity and would walk the streets wanting to open doors
[voices] and I feel splendid returning balls to groups of friends or
bounded fields plus it gives me opportunity to practice kicking and throwing
though yesterday I threw a ball probably no more than ten feet and my shoulder
aches [applause]

-Hairpin pal Jon Cotner recorded a poem while jogging through Brooklyn’s Prospect Park recently, and it’s up at The American Reader now, audio and all. Kierkegaard while you jog! I never. [American Reader]