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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Golfing with George Eastman 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Golfing with George Eastman 4/24/16 at Chicago’s 2016 Poetry Bomb at Bagdad Cemetery in Leander Texas (filmed with a Sony camera).

Golfing with George Eastman 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 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 some- thing wrong. And back a the golf cart, the three of us, at a safe distance, stood there and laughed. Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.