The Falstaff of Tennis

Casey McKinney

05.07.06

It’s Labadze, okay? – (my new favorite tennis player)

Won’t even try to remember his name.
I’ll look it up later. It’s harder to
spell than try and pronounce- the one, loud, fat,
so-damn-funny Georgian at Wimbledon?

And ranked 161, he owed some dough.
$1500 to enter. Conned London
for Pounds and charmed the world several rounds,
farther than any thought. Dude had no shorts!
white ones anyway. Borrowed trunks he donned
every day, which must have smelled by the end
‘gainst Nadal on center court – center court!
Almost had him second set – the fastest
serves on the grass, yet his flabby ass was
pretty marooned. My hero, want him back.

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