Every morning my buddy turns his radio on,
for literate company over toast and coffee.
When the station signals the next sports bulletin
he turns the volume down, preferring the silence
to pointless commentaries on competitiveness,
to raise the volume when all talk of sport is over.
It is not that he is against certain styles
of human speech, sports commentators,
it is more that he is anti pointless statistics
where nobody asks where the lie went.
