First I'll read a little one from my last book,
because everybody has played baseball
and maybe you'd like this interpretation of a ballgame.
I got the wrong number written down here,
so I'll give you a pause for psychic identification
while I find it.
Where's this thing?
"Ballgame," here it is, 55.
OK, this is sort of one version of playing ball.
Remember your youthful ball games?
"Caught off first, he leaped to run to second,
but then struggled back to first.
He left first because of a natural desire to leap,
to get on with the game.
When you jerk to run to second, you do not necessarily
think of a home run.
You want to go on.
You want to get to the next stage.
The entire soul is bent on second base.
The fact is that the mind flashes faster in action,
than the muscles can move.
Dramatic, off first taut, heading for second.
In a split second, total realization, heading for first.
Head first, legs follow fast.
You struggle back to first with victor effort.
As even after a life of effort and chill,
one flashes back to the safety of childhood,
to that strange place where one had first begun."