Candlestick wrappers

[Band of Brothers]

Candlestick wrappers

Get your hotdogs the vendor yells

As I sit down to eat a hot dog

A gust of wind takes my wrapper into flight

like the feather in the movie Forest Gump

I watch it soar into the windy Stick night

along with about 20 more from other parts

of the park

Half way through my hot dog I watch my wrapper fly

passed second base as it heads to the fence

All the wrappers twist and dive like seagulls looking for the lost hot dogs

once wrapped by them

A brown paper bag makes an entrance like James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy

It fills with air and flies to the top of the heap

The bag reaches the outfield first and sticks to the cyclone fence in left

The rest of the dancing wrappers follow

and a form of baseball art sticks to my viewing background

I finish my hotdog and laugh as the left fielders cap follows to stick against the fence

like the last stroke of a painting

and in some way I feel like I contributed to a piece of baseball art

Some might have seen it as garbage wrappers against a fence

but to me it was entertainment and a form of free forming art

I will never forget those nights when those wrappers took flight

Candlestick wrappers