gave up kicking high an hour ago

and sat down.
The kicking isn’t working.
Her team is still losing.
She picked her jacket

up from the bench

and left.

30,000 in the bleachers gasped.
The lead cheerleader stomped her feet.
One team player shouted,

”GO TO HELL!”

Then one, then another player

and another

followed and left,

violently shaking their fists in the air.

Then swaths of fans stood up

and left, cursing.
For us still left, feeling amazed,

some scratching our heads

wondering what just happened,

we witnessed a slowly growing change

in what seemed to be

the stadium lighting.
The entire field began to glow and shimmer.

We all calmly began glowing.
We held out our arms, hands and fingers,

turning looking at them this way and that way, glimmering.
Then we saw

the players on the other side

laughing.
Their cheerleaders fell over

laughing.
We were all laughing.
I fell over

onto the glowing guy

sitting next to me, he fell over

glowing me.
Then players on our side still here

held onto each other, belly laughing.
Then the coaches ran over

to each other, laughing laughing

laughing and laughing.

©️November 2024 Much Love, Deb Poems

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