Myron Noodleman Has a Bad Day

Myron Noodleman Has a Bad Day

By Genoa Wilson

It’s not as easy as it looks, you know.
Winters spent ratcheting up a touring schedule
fielding offers from cheapskate minor league teams.
What the hell am I doing?
 
Come summer on the road, I stay in motels
out on the highway.
I know the inside of most minor league ballparks better
than I know my own soul.
 
Problem is, no one wants to give me big bucks for this and I have
kids in college and a wife
who asks me why on earth would I leave
a job teaching math to spend
Friday nights and sticky Sunday afternoons
prancing around the bleachers and dancing like a dang fool
on top of a dugout.
                       
She comes to the Tulsa Drillers game when I’m there
her church group spelled out on the scoreboard in lights.
I can see her duck her head when I point at her.
The cheap hot dog and beer fans laugh.
A small child throws up on my shoe.

Genoa Wilson is a graduate of the Pro Poetry Program at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse NY. Her works has appeared in Ghost City Review, Stone Canoe and The Indianapolis Review, among others. She teaches tai chi and movement classes for seniors in central New York.

Jason David Córdova lives in Puerto Rico as an illustrator and painter. Some of his art can be seen on Instagram at @jasoni72. You can visit his shop on Red Bubble.

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