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By Jack Joseph Smith

Basketball Sometimes it is good to have your feet on the ground felling the truth, most of the time it isn't We know that ninety pereent of making a hoop is looking . the other way, getting baék and looking at at has got to be as quiek as you ean get Ttiis good if someone else . seored, but it is alot better wherr they know that gour the one who sent them the ball \ Bry eherlt ¥ feroe 5 T didn't see eress— the eourt; it was all instinet that tapped my on thee shoulder

Original Scan

AI Interpretation

GPT

Basketball becomes a lesson in instinct, speed, and the unshowy intelligence of passing.

The poem argues that real play happens before the eye catches up. Looking away, getting back, and sending the ball where someone else can score all matter more than static possession. The last line, where instinct taps the speaker on the shoulder, turns the game into a kind of embodied knowledge.

Claude

`Basketball` — the first of a small sequence. `ninety pereent of making a hoop is looking the other way` — the game explained as inattention, instinct, and peripheral vision. OCR broken in places; the idea is intact.