7'2"

i plus one your blog posts
with a waving click digit
the finger of dikembe mutombo
or his stilt bones
how tall is your poetry
when i look up
i can find no safe alley to the hoop
i can count on
everything i toss up to be swatted
out into the stands
where the fans mock me
with that same damned denial
you are gods stacked on gods
i cannot remember anything past your hands
no he says
no he says
no he says