Airborne 
at last 
 
in the  
one arena 
 
where you 
can be smug. 
 
To mock  
Boston  
 
before 
all their  
 
obnoxious 
legacies. 
 
Baseball’s 
devil 
 
bested by 
a demon. 
 
Take that 
sports writers. 
 
That moment 
before slam 
 
midair  
proclaiming 
 
At long 
long last, 
 
I’m the  
villain. 

Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, dadakuku, Nixes Mate Review and The Ugly Monster. He has also been published in anthologies such as French Connections, Sounds of Wind, Reimagine America, and The Vagabond Lunar Collection. His newest collections are All’s Well Isn’t You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts. He serves as Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine and co-organizer of the annual Boston Poetry Marathon. He lives in Boston.