Sitting still and pristine on the tee<\/p>\n
(with \u201cdefy\u201d at the core of its bind)<\/p>\n
it’s a simple inanimate object<\/p>\n
that embodies the angst of your mind.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Its logos are costly disguises \u2011<\/p>\n
Which is why you pay dear for a sleeve.<\/p>\n
And devil? Or angel?\u00a0 You’ll just never know<\/p>\n
till after<\/strong> your club face it leaves.<\/p>\n Just think of the shots you\u2019ve let fly …<\/p>\n first you yell, maybe swear, then<\/strong> despair,<\/p>\n because deaf to your cursing entreaties,<\/p>\n The Little White Ball don’t play fair.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oh, sometimes it lands in the short grass<\/p>\n where it can be happily found.<\/p>\n But mostly it lands where it loves to:<\/p>\n into ponds; behind trees; out of bounds.<\/p>\n Silly you … you think you are the master?<\/p>\n That you are the one in control?<\/p>\n Then why did your drive hit the cart barn<\/p>\n and your chip hit a telephone pole?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By now I think you get the lesson<\/p>\n and it’s one you can take to the bank …<\/p>\n you must be kind to The Little White Ball<\/p>\n to side\u2011step the skull and the shank.<\/p>\n Your handicap may be eleven.<\/p>\n Your handicap may be your head.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Or maybe it rests in the knee\u2011knocking tests<\/p>\n of those simple three footers instead …<\/p>\n Oh hell, go spend years on the range (!)<\/p>\n perfecting each least little thing …<\/p>\n Teach your hands to release just as easy as pie<\/p>\n like the ultimate Ernie Els swing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You could mimic Tiger\u2019s great skill and heart<\/p>\n or the genius of Arnie and Jack;<\/p>\n you can pray for the touch of Se Ri Pak\u2019s hands<\/p>\n or Annika\u2019s focus on track.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Buy a new set of clubs every weekend!<\/p>\n Spend your money and time with some pro.<\/p>\n Go ahead! (It’s all futile and pointless)<\/p>\n cause here\u2019s everything <\/strong>you need to know:<\/p>\n Golf\u2019s a witchcraft belonging to wizards<\/p>\n and a hell mastered only by saints.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It’s a rainbow plus quicksand plus terror<\/p>\n whose secrets are learned through your pain.<\/p>\n So the moral of this little ditty?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Well … whatever your game’s rise and fall …<\/p>\n first you MUST make nice with the Golf Gods,<\/p>\n then make peace with The Little White Ball.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n C\u00a0 CINDA\u00a0\u00a0 2003<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sitting still and pristine on the tee (with \u201cdefy\u201d at the core of its bind) it’s a simple inanimate object that embodies the angst of your mind. Its logos are costly disguises \u2011 Which is why you pay dear for a sleeve. And devil? Or angel?\u00a0 You’ll just never know till after your club…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":214,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-130","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/130\/revisions\/216"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poetry.luckycinda.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}