No other
word will do. For that’s what it was.
Gravy.
Gravy, these past ten years.
Alive, sober, working, loving, and
being loved by a good woman. Eleven years
ago he was told he had six months to live
at the rate he was going. And he was going
nowhere but down. So he changed his ways
somehow. He quit drinking! And the rest?
After that it was all gravy, every minute
of it, up to and including when he was told about,
well, some things that were breaking down and
building up inside his head. “Don’t weep for me,”
he said to his friends. “I’m a lucky man.
I’ve had ten years longer than I or anyone
expected. Pure Gravy. And don’t forget it.
Raymond Clevie Carver “Gravy”
2003, Monty abdica de corto en Phila. 2013, tras su
bautismo en Phila, Jrue Holiday de point en Pelicans entrenados por Williams.
Diez años, una década. La misma familia. Una mujer por la que vivir, cruzadas
dos vidas.
En el 2011, Paul Hornet de New Orleans dirigidos por Williams.
2021, Chris de nuevo la extensión de Monty, Sun de Phoenix, la misma familia.
Diez años, una década. Cruzadas dos vidas.
Budenholzer nativo de Arizona, coach de Monty como
espuela y su "three" a la espalda, CP en LA un emblema. De Chatsworth Holiday, indígena
y Bruin de leyenda. Vidas cruzadas, un balón y una cesta.
These fish
have no eyes
these silver fish that come to me in dreams,
scattering their roe and milt
in the pockets of my brain.
But there's one that comes--
heavy, scarred, silent like the rest,
that simply holds against the current,
closing its dark mouth against
the current, closing and opening
as it holds to the current
Raymond Clevie Carver “The Current”
De UCLA Jabbar y Allen. De estrellas y currelas, en
Milwaukee cinco décadas. Curtirse a los 20, con Collins un ensayo, un retazo.
El reto más difícil fuera de la cancha, retiro voluntario. Sweep a Blazers en
Portland, y justicia social su reclamo.
Falanges por cornamenta, sombra que gravita en silencio. acecha
a su presa, inocula veneno por naturaleza. Nunca antes en las praderas de Wisconsin un
ciervo resultó de tan reclamo al de Jrue Holiday.
Así como la obra literaria de Carver inspiraría a
Robert Altman en Short Cuts, el virtuosismo instrumental en Green Architect inspira
este relato en forma de Croix. Jrue. The
Truth.
