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Patchen, Kenneth: The Origin of Baseball

Portre of Patchen, Kenneth

The Origin of Baseball (English)

Someone had been walking in and out
Of the world without coming
To much decision about anything.
The sun seemed too hot most of the time.
There weren't enough birds around
And the hills had a silly look
When he got on top of one.
The girls in heaven, however, thought
Nothing of asking to see his watch
Like you would want someone to tell
A joke--"Time," they'd say, "what's
That mean--time?", laughing with the edges
Of their white mouths, like a flutter of paper
In a madhouse. And he'd stumble over
General Sherman or Elizabeth B.
Browning, muttering, "Can't you keep
Your big wings out of the aisle?" But down
Again, there'd be millions of people without
Enough to eat and men with guns just
Standing there shooting each other.
 
So he wanted to throw something
And he picked up a baseball.



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A baseball eredete (Hungarian)

Valaki ki-be sétált ezen a
világon, anélkül, hogy
sok döntést hozott volna bármiről.
Többnyire túl forrón sütött a nap.
Madárhiány dúlt körös-körül,
és gügyéknek látszottak a dombok,
mihelyt felmászott valamelyikre.
A lányok az égben mindazonáltal
nem kérdezték tőle, hány óra van,
ahogy te kérnél valakit, hogy mondjon
egy viccet - „Az idő - mondták -, mit is
jelent, hogy idő?", s nevetett fehér
szájzúguk, mint egy verdeső papír
a diliházban. S ő belebotlott
Sherman tábornokba, Elisabeth B.
Browningba s morgott, „Nagy szárnyatok
mért lóg a templom-padsorok közé?"
De lent megint milliók várták
éhesen, s puskás férfiak, akik éppen
le akarták egymást puffantani.
 
Dobni akart nekik valamit,
és fölkapott egy baseballt.



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Source of the quotationE. I.

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