Basketball and The Holy Ghost

from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions by kurt van hook

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The Holy Ghost of Basketball

I’ve been know to waste it all

On phones and watching basketball

Listening to those I fear the most

The father son and Holy Ghost

But next time round you’ll surely see

Entitlements all meant for me

Will fall like leaves upon the ground

More grateful folks will hear the sounds

Sounds of olive trees

With their limbs in the breeze

Playing a melody

A sweet symphony

For the times that we

Ransomed the past in our dreams

Songs that had to be seen

To be believed

I sit here and waste another day

Pick up my guitar and play

Write another silly song

About this voyage ive been upon

What will it mean when it is done?

I put my pen and six strings downloaded

Tear the paper from the page

And meditate and guess her age

Sounds of olive trees

With their limbs in the breeze

Playing a melody

A sweet symphony

For the times that we

Ransomed the past in our dreams

Songs that had to be seen

To be believed

I’ll accept this is the end

But make a final Vegas bet

Push the chips into the pot

Close my eyes and pray a lot

For equality, an end to war

For Peace and love, help for the poor

And selfishly perhaps one time

Watch her turn the water into wine

Sounds of olive trees

With their limbs in the breeze

Playing a melody

A sweet symphony

For the times that we

Ransomed the past in our dreams

Songs that had to be seen

To be believed

Bezos forsakes his greed and then

Elon musk and all his men

Line up to form a better world

Green grass for all the boys and girls

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from Memorial Day : Fifty Demolitions, released May 26, 2021

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