SONG OF THE DAY: Mala Suerte (kudzu'd)

Born to lose, but in Spanish, which is itself a blessing, to have bad luck in a language different than your first tongue. That means you have wandered from the flock and found adventure, or at least tried, which is always better than pulling your head into your shell and refusing to engage with the chaos the world deals as we all spin through space.
Also the Lebron Brothers are my favorite Lebrons. They are the greatest Lebrons of all time. It's not even close. (This is also NBA content.)

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both a blessing and a curse 
being born to lose… few folks 
remember the hardly known 

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learning to perfectly shoot 
threes on busted rim - born to 
lose because the game is fixed 

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shooting my southern gothicc 
futurist buzzer shots at 
crooked rim not meant for swish 

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practicing free throws on an 
empty court; childhood dreams of 
last second buzzer beaters 

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last second three-pointers are

pretty hard to practice when

they never gave you a rim

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public basketball hoops with

sky as backdrop - a dumbass

dirtgod photography theme

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imaginary tournaments

in my head, early Sunday

morning, at quiet Rives Park

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the activities of youth

slowly replaced by grown man's

dull responsibilities

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rural ass country white boys

practicing jump shots outside

because ain't shit else to do

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draining last second threes with

crowd of redbuds going wild

(except not, since public park)

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denying urban children

the joy of perfect swish sound,

with medieval chain nets

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triangular ball control

makes better sense in soccer

than small scale basketball court

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middle-aged man publicly

practicing his free throws by

his self on Sunday mornings

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slam dunk contests off milk crates,

trees and clouds act as judges;

imaginary third place

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practicing jump shot on a

public court until them net

strings gave out, one at a time

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full court imagination,

all alone but conducting

a whole eight-team tournament

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broken backboard lifestyles with

red, white, and blue nets, never

noticing the irony

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plexiglass backboard busted -

practicing perfect rain of

three-pointers, nothing but net

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forcing game seven in my

own head between deities

who have formed loose collectives