“Instant Replay,” New Era, Aug. 1989, 27
Instant Replay
Why won’t time stop for me?
Does for the color commentators
who can just say,
Let’s see that one more time …
Not only do they halt time,
they get more of it;
More once more for the
isolation shot or the close-up
or the reverse angle;
More once more until
it’s decided the pass was
incomplete.
Wish I could check out life like
old players can football—
No film rolling while I yearn,
learn, pray, play, grin, or … sin.
No way can I call time out and
analyze with fondness or pain
things and things;
Time keeps pushing me forward,
only lets me say,
Let’s try that one more time …
So I don’t get more time—
I use more of it.
Logic is, though,
That the less I replay
and the more I redo,
the more likely
it’s decided my life wasn’t
incomplete.
Photography by Christina Rivera