Thursday, November 25, 2010

Foosball as Muse

We celebrated Thanksgiving at my aunt and uncle's house in Holly Hills this afternoon. After the meal, I ended up downstairs engaging in a friendly competition on the foosball table they've had down there as long as I can remember. I've played foosball on that table since I was seven or eight years old, probably. In fact, one year I was even inspired to write a poem about foosball. I thought I'd share it here.


The Foosball Men's Sonnet

Brothers skewered arm to arm,
Our chubby cherub faces’ charm’s
infectious, as we flip and strike,
coordinated, lockstep. Like
Rockettes deprived of their free will,
we kick a solid, plastic ball
toward gaping goal and hear it fall
and roll beneath. We rest until
it pops out through a sideline hole.
We spin for yet another goal—
jerked this way, that—or try to block
a shot. Our game’s not ruled by clock:
we play to ten, or till you tire.
To nothing more do we aspire.


Happy Thanksgiving everybody!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi your poem made me smile. I've never played foosball but now I feel like I want to. Happy Thanksgiving to you too.

Unknown said...

I have a https://www.foosballsuperstore.com/atomic/pro-force-foosball-table/ and my neighbor has a table. We don’t play all the time, but we try to play as much as we can. I’ve loved foos since I was a teenager, and since I got my own table, I’ve gotten much better. What we're doing is practicing for when we go to the hockey playoff pool at another buddies house. They think they’re good and we’re going to slaughter them.