the future ain't what it used to be, <br />it seems like the past coming back again, <br />like an open book, a dime store novel, a new mistake. <br />the Dodgers are leaving Brooklyn, O'Malley said, <br />and it looks as though I'll relive that day over <br />and over, like a looped film I can't stop watching. <br /> <br />you can observe a lot by watching <br />Dodger fans and Yankee fans, the series would be <br />a way for a man to show his character over <br />beer and baseball on black and white tv. the Yankees <br /> win again, <br />wait until next year, the Dodger fans said. <br />rooting for Brooklyn seemed a tragic mistake. <br /> <br />I don't want to make the wrong mistake. <br />it's all a matter of knowing who's watching, <br />remembering everything that's ever been said, <br />the Dodgers are gone, we won't be <br />the same in this city again. <br />but still, those days refuse to be over. <br /> <br />it ain't over til it's over. <br />maybe it was all a mistake <br />and the Dodgers will come back to Brooklyn again, <br />time will reverse, and we would be watching <br />ourselves rush backwards to the moment we came to be, <br />undo our pasts, take back the words we said. <br /> <br />I didn't really say everything I said. <br />it sounds so different when I say it over. <br />better to leave it be, <br />the past works to spotlight the mistake <br />on a stage with everyone watching. <br />attendance for this one is falling again. <br /> <br />it's deja vu all over again. <br />like echoes, I hear those words I said, <br />floating like shadows and here I am, watching. <br />the Brooklyn Dodgers, like a page turned over, <br />are leaving for California, but whose mistake <br />is it supposed to be? <br /> <br />it's all a game I keep watching, even though it's over. <br />you're hearing what I said, is it a mistake <br />to be listening again? what else could it be?<br /><br />Jesse Weiner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-sestina-on-some-lines-by-yogi-berra/
