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By Jack Joseph Smith

Dont! worry about anything you are friends with Wilt Chamberland I saw Bop Cousy move and Hot hod handley act right out of West Virginia, and I fought for Jerry West at the Melondy Mannor Where did you ever learn to do that And I said I think I just did I’ take a step the other way TI guess I'll give it paek Maybe I won't See the ball Go ahead and think it’s in the air fy your shoes It's only magic Swish is next

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Name-dropping basketball legends, the page celebrates style, sleight of hand, and the almost magical confidence of improvisation.

Wilt Chamberland, Cousy, and Jerry West appear less as historical references than as a lineage of permission. The speaker's `I think I just did` answers technique with spontaneity, and the poem keeps making the ball disappear before the inevitable `Swish.` It is playful, boastful, and delighted by craft that looks like magic.

Claude

Basketball continues into name-drop territory — Wilt Chamberlain, Bob Cousy, `Hot hod handley`, Jerry West at the Melondy Mannor. The tactical advice collapses into `It's only magic / Swish is next`.