Four Friends at Rockton

 Four Friends at Rockton

Wild Things.

Warbler’s wings.

Sunny weather.

Turkey feathers.

A hilly hike.

Quite a riddle:

From the bottom to the middle,

The middle of the top.

Laugh ‘til you drop.

The Bucks fall,

Playing air ball.

And grabbing few boards

On the Hawk’s end of the floor.

Air ball, missing by a mile,

Only works well in bocci ball.

In our bocci ball game, 

The guy who won

Knows a lot about air balls.

In life, he’s shot a thousand and one.

Nothing botchy, though,

About how Gary played bocci.

The debate of the day was breezy:

Was the name of the game bocce or bocci?

We should’ve asked Dr. Fauci.

But turned instead to Jeff, the psychologist in our midst,

Who himself was suffering from separation anxiety.

Separation from his phone, that is, the solver of such dire disputes

Among these four dudes.

So lacking a respected authority

We turned to the guy closest to the nationality of Fauci,

A ½ Italian guy named Lisiecki,

And therefore spelled it bocci.

We’re sure the Bucks will stage a comeback,

Despite blowing the home court impact.

They’ll send the Hawks flying from Fiserv

After flinging their own air balls to the moon and back.

Speaking of comeback, us four will be sure to return,

Return to the Kickapoo outback.