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My Thrills

“I never think in terms of trying to play a song the way I made it.” – B.B. King

There was a way I first felt
But I'd rather play it another way,
Leave it all out, a clouding
Of the eyeglasses, fog in the ball park.
When the best things happened, I hesitated
To be present. But tonight I’m warmer
Than the air around me. There was a way
I first felt and I’m inviting it
Back. The thrill is most here
When gone, and that’s
How it plays.

*Ball is currently a professor at The University of Southern Mississippi (USM). in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. There she works at the Center for Writers, a creative writing program that offers M. A. and Ph.D. degrees in English with creative writing emphasis and creative thesis or dissertation (Centers for Writers: WWW). She is also an editor for the Mississippi Review at USM's Center for Writers. Her most recent work, THE MUSEUM OF THE REVOLUTION: 58 EXHIBITS, appeared from Carnegie Mellon University Press in 1999.

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