Son of a Bitch

St. Louis Cardinals 4, Detroit Tigers 2. Cardinals win World Series 4 games to 1.

This is a movie blog, I know. I also know that I shouldn’t feel so damned sad about a bunch of millionaires losing a baseball game. But I do. So if there’s any Tigers fans out there, including my Mother, my lovely Aunt Mary and the dear soul of my Grandmother Schilling, I leave you with these words:

The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster…

Excerpt from “One Art”, by Elizabeth Bishop.