how to walk in snow

i take each step through the snow as if it's my last.

it's a himalaya monk walk,
a meditation.
i don't need a gym membership.
i'm a mohawk packing up furs into a canoe
voyaging montreal to green bay.

there must be a reason why the quebec town kahnawake
is so close in spelling and pronunciation
to milwaukee.

the great distances people traveled
probably didn't seem like great distances.
they were just doing what had to be done.

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when i think back on the longest game in major league baseball history,
i remember harold baines hitting a home run off chuck porter
in the 25th inning at old comiskey park in 1984.
the brewers only used 6 pitchers the entire game.

i like shared starts.
i like the idea of john axford pitching the first two innings of a game,
followed by marco estrada and mark rogers and tom gorzelanny
and whoever in the ninth to close it out.

gallardo is the only horse in the rotation.
he'll get his five days rest and
all the other relievers/starters can rotate,
pitch one game, sit out one game.
that would make for 80 appearances per pitcher
and if it worked effectively,
the billy beane paparazzies would be all over brew city.