Luis Neer - Gridiron! Gridiron!, or, Illuminated Poem for a High School Football Match lyrics

Gridiron! Gridiron! There on the gridiron! The light in human eyes! Nucleus of life! The field! O field! Redeeming place! There on the gridiron I see a man! There on the gridiron I see Ursa Major! Ripping! Tearing! Roaring! The planets shake! There on the gridiron twenty feet tall! There on the gridiron he watches himself! Disembodied! Immortal! Clairvoyant! All true! All solid and all true! There on the gridiron his foes engulfed! There on the gridiron he picks at his crotch! In his eyes an engine roars! New soul! burning bright! Stars exploding! Somebody screams! All solid! His gaze solid! His body solid! Infinity concrete! The earth concrete! All in check before him!

He dashes across the field! Every breath a universe born! Old men chewing hot dogs! Young men staring at cellphone screens! History burned in a notebook in a bonfire! A flower enclosing itself! Plant cells malfunctioning! Les pensers sitting in loud silence! Constellational! Eternal man unyielding! pumping across the field! His body locomotive! Battlefield! Battlefield! The brain the nucleus! Religion a ribosome! Everything fierce! Singular! Secret! His life void of pleasure! Every breath an explosion ignited! The game lost! Nineteen! Twentysix! Day lost! astronomical! lost! lost! The universe! O universe! E pluribus unim! Gridiron! Andlibertyandjusticeforall!