Ball

Ball from an outgrowth of cricket
some ways of heaven unnecessary
 -- la di da di
I am a man of superior virtue because
I  am not virtuous
-- likes to party
as a passenger, as a landlubber,
being raised from youth to man
from the reputation of this man ( my father
early on with the name, yik, or ten to the eighth

there is a legend that prevails at Lovers' Leap
of an Indian Chief's daughter promised to a warrier
who outran all other participants in a contest.
Yet an elder warrier triumphed through the guile,
and so our lovers leapt to their deaths on the rocks below
from the highest spot on the Wissahickon

To be continuously poor is to be keen
on all instruments, knowing
my limit, my skills
seem awkward
but I got the rhythm.