A Silly, Silly Game (CTG)

A Silly, Silly Game

Cricket. Too slow! Too boring!
Thin ripple of applause from
a mock Tudor pavilion. Consider
those daffy names cricketers use:
Silly mid-on. Silly mid-off.
Silly midwicket. Silly point.

As my train clatters through
the English countryside, I see a
a lazy stream wafting with fresh
green weeping willows, a water-
meadow where Guernseys graze, see

the inevitable cricket match:
players in white flannels dot
a green lawn precisely rollered.
Oh yawn! Supplanted all too fast
(howzat!) by a cemetery's sod
dotted with white stones.

Christopher T. George

I can never understand the score at half time and why the bowlers all seem to have this incredible itch in their groin that they jut have to rub with the ball always amazes me.