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Mrs. Bobby Thomson

from Las monjas despojadas by Menchaca

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Strong words at the motel
The veteran said mind your business
Tympanis of drying towels
She waited for them to finish

Then she rolled her cleaning trolley up
One wheel orbiting sideways on it
How did the shot heard round the world
Sound to Mrs, Bobby Thomson?
 
Plaster from a shattered caste
Like a prehistoric eggshell
Shadow patterns where the pieces scattered
On the windowsill

Behind the blinds footsteps stagger
Like a watch mis-marking time in cotton
How did the shot heart round the world
Sound to Mrs. Bobby Thomson?
 
Other eyes in other days
Could not on pain of torture look away
The player steps before the plate
And space and time seem infinite

3 to 4 in inning nine
In a bar in South Korea a soldier overhears
The war is going nuclear this time
And the ball enters the atmosphere
 
Her key card sinks, the green light blinks
The threshold surrenders
She’s about to enter and she hesitates
There’s something she remembers

On the bed’s a box of bullets
No one there to spot them
How did the show heard round the world
Sound to Mrs. Bobby Thomson?

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from Las monjas despojadas, released September 15, 2018

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Menchaca is a Pittsburgh-based artist, composer and writer.

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