Golden Warriors End Year with Big Loss

Just look at you, doing the hangdog shuffle
back to the locker room, shoulder humps
bulging under your jersey like a couple
of wandering codpieces. You’re in a slump,
all right—and someday it will dawn on you
that your hard body (even as we speak)
is already inching closer to
a long, inevitable losing streak-
and soon those hamstrung legs of yours will race
right past your final season, your brush with fame
and disillusion, years of commonplace
diversions. You’re hurtling into overtime,
gaining yardage on your rocking chair,
your last pass, last play, last breath of air.