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Rubber Crumb Gully

Alex Saynor

Wednesday, November 6th, 2024

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Black cushions of recycled Continental
are semi-volatile compounds
like the Sandhurst centre-back
channelling his week into a tackle.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 In Tiempos, feel the rubber crumb
of zinc-enriched non-organic infill
rush-tipped on a garden’s London Clay
for snails or insects to appropriate
a cost for keeping flesh wounds at bay.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Rake out the cork, sink a foot in the natural
here-and-there carpet of rotting mulch
approved by the Riverkeepers of Delaware
in place of rubber mists, clouds of lead,
magnesium from Apollo, General Tyre,

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 Hoosier, Kalani, Nankang, Orium,
Michelin, Westlake, Courier and Carlisle.

Notes

This concerns the little bits of black rubber on artificial pitches that cushion your impact on the turf (the ones that end up all over the house etc) ; they have been considered potentially carcinogenic and are a definite pollutant, as identified by the Delaware Riverkeepers who recommend a natural replacement rather than chopped up recycled tyres.

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/rubber-crumb-gully/