N F L Sparrow

National Football League Sparrow Poem
Dave Duerson sat next to me on a plane.A massive hero in a first class seat.Stewardess offers him Cristal Champagne,writing notes in my moleskin, I refrain.
Raise the armrest, as I am bantam freight.He chuckles at the gesture as a giant,brushes the laptop as if dust holds weight.Conversation digs into complaint.
Dave desires to share early historyperhaps book, or memoir of his childhood,not the NFL, the stand-up story,before a brute American manhood.
When NFL ends violence in play,hear stadiums full cheer another day.

Caroline Gerardo ©  copyright 12/20/2017

 \ on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). 
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