3 Time Loser  

"To the people here, we are outsiders. Foreigners" - Roberto Clemente

3 strikes and you’re outshined
by white yanquis in pin stripe suits
spinning spiked spic balls at black list fist
fouls off golden wrists
3000 hits and misses  
goodbye kisses
swing and found missing
during a Managua mercy mission
flying food to earth-quake sir-vivors
sí vera and the three robertitos in ’72  
waving adios on new jeers eve
to the most valuable prayer
four time battling cham-peon
a bad ass broken bodied black Porto Rican
caught by crabbers and  
bought by Pittsburgh pirates for 4000 goya beans
paid in stolen bases and replay races
against foreign faceless racists
fair weather fan-addicts and  
aging bobby-soxers aching  
for another home team champion-ship  
or a newer nigga slave ship
to trade number 21  
back home to Borinquen
in a battered box  

(not4)Prophet