Hans Sandreuter, Swiss
It All Came Down To This. Joey Knew He Had To Pick Up the Spare To Have Any Hope of Winning the Strip Bowling Tournament, Date Unknown
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/// The odd stance of Young Man with a Discus
makes the crowd fear he’s drunk and might risk us.
So, it’s quite a relief
that this nude “side of beef”
isn’t plastered. He tore his meniscus.
/// Seven hundred and sixty B.C.
is the date that he injured his knee.
Flung his disc ‘cross the sky
(like a large Frisbie pie).
It came back when it bounced off a tree.
/// As the discus hit kneecap it ”popped.”
And his left leg’s sharp pains haven’t stopped.
He cannot run a race;
just to go place to place,
(as you see) on his right leg he hopped.
/// As it healed, he would spring like demented,
But the athlete was oddly contented.
A devotee of sport,
he, with pride, would report
that the “Hop, Step and Jump” he’d invented.
/// Leon tip-toes with high-stepping leg.
For some breakfast he’d needed to beg.
Now he treads with great care
to the nearest hearth where
he will scramble his meal, ostrich egg.
/// If he drops the egg, cracking the shell,
Leon’s family will curse him to Hell.
He’d been sent out to steal,
beg, or borrow a meal.
They are starving, and not doing well.
/// This is what Leon looks like today,
but he didn’t, in life, look this way.
With an egg to convey
he was stopped on that day
and got buried (and stoned) in Pompeii.
Young Roman trying to remember the combination to his locker at the Gymnasium so he can get dressed: “XXII sinister… VII dexter…. IX sinister…”