Canada vs. Russia (WJC 2013 Bronze Medal Game)
http://www.montrealmystique.ca/2013/01/05/canada-vs-russia-wjc-2013-bronze-medal-game/
Missed it? Musings capture the game in writing. A written transcript typed during the game, posted and edited about thirty minutes afterward. Based on the RDS French telecast of the Montreal Canadiens game, Musings take about 23 minutes to read. More detailed than an article, fresher than a looping highlight and good with Doritos. Or late-night toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches. A unique way to re-experience the game. And this morning; it’s the World Juniors. The bronze medal game.
My Poppy’s Better
My poppy used to fight over in Germany.
He killed Nazis.
My poppy came from the woods and wind over the sea.
Your poppy sounds ungrateful and stupid.
Your poppy thinks wars make one great.
My poppy knows more than your poppy because he fought in the war.
My poppy supports all who suffer in war, not just the soldiers.
My poppy is the right poppy, the only poppy. The wrong colour poppy is way worse than not having a poppy.
My poppy was born in 1933.
My poppy’s older than yours.
Your poppy glorifies war.
My poppy says having new ideas for old traditions is really offensive.
Margaret Thatcher disdains my poppy.
Jesus wouldn’t want your poppy.
My poppy says this isn’t a Christian country.
My poppy is always right.
Your poppy grew in Flander’s Fields.
My poppy is the greatest poppy in Canada.
My poppy I leave to you with failing arms.
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My Country
you can wear it on a lapel
it's always red always white
it can flutter
or breeze high
a song
a clap
avalanche thunder
silence poked flower snow in the sun
but never rectangle
always one
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21 Periods
7game blame
seventh shame
flame
the canada
game
claim
ottawa blame
bruin fame
bolt or tame
the game lays lame
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CBC Saturdays
we grew up listening to Honeymoon Suite
Loverboy, before that.
Cheap Trick, we were told
was the next big thing,
Beatle big
floods weren't cool
nike made the ugliest shoes
and converse was something american
so spalding rubber orange delight
so spiderman crinkled
we wished we were guys we'd never seen
and we craved slim jims, clark bars, the things
a cold, cold northern canada town never stocks
feathered hair
salmon steel lockers
the black confetti hallway floors
the smooth grey
we thought they'd never stop winning
2010-11
I don't know how
to end
I don't know how
to begin
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Morning Freeze
in cold Canada
the oval
is dark
on high
at dawn
the hosewater licks ice
a splash
fills
the grey
feels
blue
flies
high
the
dawn
star
sparkle
is
orange
haze
grim
and an
eye
'fore
the
frost
of
evening
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My Canada Ain’t
my quebec is lafleur flags ripple, fury's wake engine aflower, blond demon my ontario is Orr from shorr to bear shore my toronto is sittler your right man wronged montreal is mike bossy silver missile, shadow glisten my canada is wayne made marvel mirth marble earth's coolest game my canada is hull grace, brick and mortar no apologies, no quarter mon canada est mario big river, lithe style le magnifique, le naturel my canada ain't on the ice nor its fans in the stands
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Vancouver Fedora
golden american canuck sliver it's a silver slice pie. gaetan and eric like doug and bobby but internationale i licked i mean liked olympic frozen polar bare foot ball east timore Unitas all but Russ and Spaghetti legs and Ronnie Dougie delight mean CanAm silver flows gold football and hockey olympics and cocky canuckistan is east of east a diamond sky Czech-off is a Russian bullet oppressed and shamed capital and claim the coins are vancouver the iceberg is canada the words were Bidini's the country is ours yeah, i believe it fix it
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Damocles Veins
am I Canadian?
does your Canada
stand for me?
sings and arrow
fire for
the indigenous
your immigration
is sallow musket fire
borrowed doom
a temporal dynasty
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Missing Wing
oh like her visa
o like the ode
oh where in stars in green stripes
have you been?
o like you nothing
oh so you didn’t know
o canada, home for the free
o so you didn’t know
oh but you never heard
owe like your pain is (the) only
oh for show
nothing is something
ignorance is your bliss
nothing is the shot you miss
Wunderkind Scrimmage
Sep 12, 2009
the lazy, powerful lob of pigskin
sparring champions laugh, at play
baroque timbre, the easy twosome
of experience
a metronome romance
titanic fugue for rote
a pause for the
sublime
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Cups Quint Lequel?
in the offseason, the glint of the greyhound
is a vampire’s silver eye in the moonlight blood never moans pucks never cheer football tickets can’t cascade a millionaire Frenchman’s dream liquid over the edge of a chilled Silver Chalice [The Grey Cup remains Canada's greatest annual single-game event.]
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