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# Rain Delay: Tough Call
**by Bruce Robinson**

*After Norman Rockwell, “Tough Call” (1949)*



Play ball, Rocky:
hey umps, yes, I’m weighing in here,
play ball, Rocky,

a minor inundation; hell,
possibly because it’s April  
the season’s young, you may as well

 play ball, Rocky.
