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David Greenspan |
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If This Were the Movies If this were the movies the realization of my undying love for you would have been enough to make you run to my arms or show up at my door when I least expected or something but this isn't the movies and you don't have a ride. Basketball Black guys are playing basketball to impress white girls who don't even like basketball. I'm there too with the black chicks who get stared at by old white men t-shirts tucked into their underwear and both sticking out of their wranglers. & I'm there. . .on the side hiding beers in my hat and talking courtside shit with everyone who passes by while fake gangsters loom in the back trying to walk with their legs as far apart as possible and seeing who could wear their pants the lowest below their ass which I would gladly kick for them if they only had the balls to make eye contact with me for more than two seconds. The rhythm, the voice the voices so many girls and not many choices but I'm not on the court today which means I may as well be invisible except to some of the Spanish girls who are there because they're tired of watching their guys play soccer. Down here, color is only important if you can't play & my game musters enough to be able to watch here Down here, Black girls say I'm here for the game Down here, White girls say I'm here for the guys, Old men wish they weren't old & I'm here because I'm anywhere I want to be. |