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Gravity I | Baller's Limits

The gravity in football is very heavy.
No-one fails upwards,
it is the way of these things.
What is the premier league?
The sky? The limit?
Can anything fly so high
for very long, before the basic fatigue
of success wearies the soul,

like an albatross that,
after so many ceaseless years
riding clean in the prettiest stratospheres
suddenly finds itself above — say, Speke —
takes it all in and says that’s enough now
and drops, soundlessly,
down into a suburban garden
on an otherwise forgettable afternoon?