Roger Maris
By: Michael Ceraolo
I thought writers had to have imagination,
but the writers couldn't imagine
someone not wanting to live in New York City,
couldn't imagine someone who didn't want to talk about himself,
couldn't imagine someone other than Mickey
making a run at Ruth's record
And because they couldn't imagine that last one,
they voted, by a wide margin, to endorse
Commissioner Frick's ridiculousness,
and then couldn't imagine
why I or anyone else might object
Michael Ceraolo is a 62-year-old retired firefighter/paramedic and active poet who has had two full-length books (Euclid Creek, from Deep Cleveland Press; 500 Cleveland Haiku, from Writing Knights Press) published, and has two more (Euclid Creek Book Two, from unbound content press; Lawyers, Guns, and Money, from Writing Knights Press) in the publication, pipeline.