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A vision of competitive badminton
Memories of military badminton
Winner of college tourney
Why not purchase a Bancroft racquet?
Purchased at wholesale in 1969
Hanging on a bedroom wall in 1993
Twenty-four years of waiting
For the fulfillment of vision.
The racquet has moved many times
Always close at hand
Yes, we’ve hit some
With English real feather birdies.
Why does it follow me?
Does it wish to be a burial relic?
It hangs over my bed
Calling me to the vision.
June 1993