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# NBA Poetry
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2503/
- Published: 2005-09-28T14:02:56.000Z
- Updated: 2005-09-28T14:02:56.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Writing, #wpChunk

Well, I've never posted serious poetry to this site, so this is a first: an excerpt from the poetry of Etan Thomas, black activist and NBA forward for the Washington Wizards.

> Now I look upon my culture,  
> I see ballers, sure I do  
> Hard corers in Haute Couture, in furs  
> Enough to make my ancestry - stir

> My brothers among me,  
> Kwame a black walnut tree,  
> Lorenzo in his Benzo, give Stevie Blake his Vitamin D  
> Gheorghe, the Great White Way,  
> My endocrine Giant is dying on the parquet

> My soldier in hardwood war, Haywood  
> I ask: “What sound is made from the clapping of one small hand?”  
> A heart bigger that the prostate gland  
> of Abe  
> Honest, Master Pollin, an ego so kingly swollen, let me go,  
> Because the Foggy Bottom Metro is still an underground railroad

[Link](http://www.deadspin.com/sports/nba/index.php?ref=thedailyeudemon.com#etan-thomas-gets-his-dylan-thomas-on-127775).