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The Basketball
December 24, 2014
Surface worn down like an old
miners hands.
Lines colored like coal; dark, tiny
valleys around the surface.
The name like the badge
on the worker’s shirts.
Scarred marks from play; scraped
by picks, hammers, dynamite.
But to fly through the air,
like a plane,
looking down at the goal,
instead of always looking up.
© Cassie H., Carmi, IL
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