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Issue #22 U.S.A. vs. Mexico soccer game, Denver, Colorado, April 4, 2002.
Haiku and photographs: Jonathan Machen
i have to confess
i rooted for the wrong team
for the whole first half
yellow card caution
awarded to the player
who got too roudy
not sitting so well
that coors beer in my stomach
cold april evening
a red-card ejection
issued to team USA
for being too rough
faint odor of beer
wafts over the stadium
we stream towards the source
better than foos-ball:
twenty-two soccer players
in a stadium
the rest of the game
is determined by one kick
and it's random path
forty-thousand fans
responding in unison
to that last mistake
i join the chorus
of horns and adrenalin
at the soccer game
the trajectory
of his well-intentioned kick
sails over the goal
i have to confess
i rooted for the wrong team
for the whole first half
yellow card caution
awarded to the player
who got too roudy
not sitting so well
that coors beer in my stomach
cold april evening
a red-card ejection
issued to team USA
for being too rough
faint odor of beer
wafts over the stadium
we stream towards the source
better than foos-ball:
twenty-two soccer players
in a stadium
the rest of the game
is determined by one kick
and it's random path
forty-thousand fans
responding in unison
to that last mistake
i join the chorus
of horns and adrenalin
at the soccer game
the trajectory
of his well-intentioned kick
sails over the goal
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jonathan machen
drawing/writing/photography
jonathan machen