The Boss

By tom karlson

Submitted to portside by the author


Ends at eighty

Silver spoon found near his moving jaws

Filled with white teeth and fleeing grey words

1952 Air Force, Ohio bound, no Korea for him



The Boss sending orders

Hiring, firing

Secretaries, managers, coaches

Church going family man



Running his old man's business

Buys the Yankees 1973 8.8 million



Stadium renovation, complete 1976

Strapped city shells out

200 million

Yankees, rent less with sweetheart lease

City, landlord from heaven



Extorting dough for Tricky Dick

Obstructing justice…1974 felony

Suspended from baseball 2 years

Pardoned by Ronnie 1989



Desires Macomb's Dam Park for three decades

Play land, one thousand working class ghosts

Running, racing, catching fongoes, footballs, kicking soccer 
balls



Second felony

Trying to renege on a contract

Banned for life from baseball, 1990

Sanitized and reinstated 1993

Blackmails city threatens abandonment

Will run the Yanks to Jersey, Connecticut, the West Side

The braying mayor springs for another stadium

Rises up on Macomb's 28 acres, 2.3 billion



Tickets $25 to $5000

The people's team



tom 

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