RAVEN MACK is a mystic poet-philosopher-artist of the Greater Appalachian unorthodox tradition. He does have an amazing PATREON, but also *normal* ARTIST WEBSITE too.
somewhat indiff'rent
towards Sweden, though I do love
underdogs, always
maternal grandmother was
Swedish/Norwegian/some shit
fell in love with Swiss
team during their Serbian
group stage encounter
existence diaspora
convened in mountain nation
Sweden comes out gate
with early probing of goal,
Yann Sommer stands tall
whole first half is ebb and flow
without climactic finish
this continues through
second half - nothing of note,
nothing horrible
perhaps I'm suffering from
football burnout; I am bored
finally Forsberg
forces constant Swedish probes
to result in goal
Yann Sommer would've had it,
but defender deflection
Sweden seems good bit
more bout it bout it than Swiss,
staying on attack
not sure what Swiss plan is here,
seem to be stuck on defense
into final ten
minutes of regular time, the
Swiss appear frantic
still remarkably at ease
considering circumstance
Rodriguez header
in extra time almost draws
level - Olsen save
last second red card foul just
outside box does the Swiss in
was it lackluster
performance by them? or did
the Swedes dominate?
doesn't matter - just look at
the scoreboard motherfucker
German opener
loss perhaps the biggest shock of
much shocking World Cup
they're not composed of single
player though - football machine
a Swedish upset
would eliminated champs from
advancing further
not sure Swedes have it in them,
but anything can happen
early bloodletting
had Germans limping along
not fully full-speed
dude named Ola cashed in with
Swedish curler to take lead
unto break remained
this scoreline; halftime pundits
forecast German doom
they came back out from tunnel
firing though, equalized quick
after that, became
a slog - Swedes clutching dearly
at this huge upset
Germans attempting to not
suffer dark group stage knockout
side note - Boateng has
for long time been most worthless
man on German squad
leg scissors takedown red card
puts Germans man down at end
wide open extra
time going both ways, but Kroos
exclamation point
crazy curling free kick trick
shot allows Germans relief
Monday morning in
America, return to
work life drudgery
soccer so secondary
here, like all things which are shared
the dude who sits a
few cubicles over from
me is Korean
put the game on background of
my desktop; he was absent
zoned in and out, but
did catch the part where they did
penalty review
I get getting it right, but this
grinds game to horrible halt
why do men believe
they can achieve perfection?
in sport? in science?
accept our human error,
get on with enjoying life
anyways, Granqvist
converted the penalty,
saw my boy Ki play
trying to recharge myself
before today's later games
how much soccer can
American man watch while
pretending to work?
doing my part to make this
part of our culture as well
I'm one-fourth Swedish,
but American mongrel's
my identity
that means I hope both these teams
get murdered by Mexico
