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Order this writing in the 2010 6" x 9" ISBN# book Dual of Janet Kuypers poetry converted to prose, based on 1990s chapbooks from GAD Publishing Company of Kuypers: “Drop.” and “Roll.”

Golfing with George Eastman

Janet Kuypers

    I played a round of golf with George Eastman. Now, George was going on, bragging about his game, and at the first hole my shot was pretty straight and his veered sharp to the right. And he started swearing and cussing, me and the other two guys thought he was going to pop a vein or throw a club at us.

    And every hole was the same: George wasn’t playing well and with every shot he’d get more and more violent, more and more volatile. And finally, at the last hole, he lands his golf ball right into the water. And he stops. Perfectly calm. No jumping. No swearing. No throwing of his golf clubs or stomping on the ground. George just shrugged his shoulders and walked toward the water. He dropped a new ball down. Not a sound. Maybe this was the one, we, thought, the one point when he realized how useless his anger was. And we watched.

    And George Eastman looked at the ball he dropped between his feet, and then just started stomping, and screaming, and waving his golf club above his head, even more violent than before, as if the poor golf ball did something wrong. And back at the golf cart, the three of us, at a safe distance, stood there and laughed.



Originally published in the chapbook Roll, from GAD Publishing Company 1997.

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