1989
Instant Replay
August 1989


“Instant Replay,” New Era, Aug. 1989, 27

Instant Replay

Why won’t time stop for me?

Does for the color commentators

who can just say,

Let’s see that one more time …

Not only do they halt time,

they get more of it;

More once more for the

isolation shot or the close-up

or the reverse angle;

More once more until

it’s decided the pass was

incomplete.

Wish I could check out life like

old players can football—

No film rolling while I yearn,

learn, pray, play, grin, or … sin.

No way can I call time out and

analyze with fondness or pain

things and things;

Time keeps pushing me forward,

only lets me say,

Let’s try that one more time …

So I don’t get more time—

I use more of it.

Logic is, though,

That the less I replay

and the more I redo,

the more likely

it’s decided my life wasn’t

incomplete.

Photography by Christina Rivera