Kobe Poems

4.13

and for those reasons I hardly care

watching on my phone

two minutes behind

a live shot chart 
at 1am

Utah has already won

its up to the Lakers now

to hold on to number eight

reacting 
my body when

           I see they win

as tho its involved in

beating Golden State 

                  a proper playoff team

despite Stephen Currys 47 points

and      rechecking in the morning

learning that Kobe didnt take the final shot

despite hitting two consecutive threes

for a reason     a torn achilles

putting him out for the season

no playoffs      possibly not ever

Shaq retired this way     you know

and I feel a real sense of loss 
now     

I feel    a real sense     of loss

even tho          as concerns Kobe

I never got the taste of Colorado

properly out of my mouth

even tho          we believe

he didnt do it

have                 for some
time now

I think

its because

this activity

4.18

the Lakers have since won out

beating the spurs and rockets

two more “proper playoff teams”

to become the seventh seed

in the west

where weeks ago they seemed a ways

away from eight

this now          

all without Kobe

suggesting that the Lakers

are now           D Hows

team

like the Heat   are LeBrons

like they came to

belong to him

“when he made

D Wade

say so”

only less interesting