Angie

Angelo!  Hey Angelo!  Listen.
An old goalie is a lot like an old quarterback.
The over forty kind.
Give him a cigar and a copy of the Financial Post
... both are happy.

the coaches lined them up.  a police lineup of goalies.
jostling, joshing

       i never really liked pucks
         i never really liked shooters

    line em up line em up
         shuffle
           board  chalk
              signs
                     a nervous  camera
               and eight profiles

   dat one (#5)
e's a keeper
    a ha ha ha - clink - ٭

  the stool cranks, bends
 Leo.  it's Leo.
 stud Leo
         short for ...
  quoi?    Leonid
           Leonides
           Leonard?
           Leroy
           Le quoi?
  never mind
Leo  in the dark
            light cast
   a shadow lamp
 thinly tolerable unshaved suit
  bowling alley gold or thatch brown
thinner than a mopstick villain
 vaseline and old spice
     he talks rood brass
      the oooo sound water makes
  penelope olive oyl eyes
angles? none
 spotlight ... one
  the "d" is silent
  he's a cartoon cocoon
nerves a bundle of tapeworms
    stomach seize  glove
and fevered in his damp
      equipment

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