“Yeah, man, well, like we got to step up to the plate, you know, make some big plays, get some points on the board, you know what I mean?”

– spoken on TV on game day by a multimillion-dollar athlete

Harold, I don’t want to be

a nagging wife, but, dear,

the roof’s leaking again,

we don’t have much money left,

there’s very little here to eat,

the car is almost out of gas,

and, well, you know, I was wondering, like,

when the TV ball game’s over do you think

you could maybe step up to the plate?

Gerald George lives in East Machias. He has written books on museums, historic sites and libraries and is a citizen of the Red Sox Nation. His Down East writers group, the Salt Coast Sages, recently traveled to Ireland to participate in a poetry

workshop.