Pro Prop Proper Property diptych

The Los Angeles Dodger

Leans on his bat as if it is a crutch

Then straightens and strolls to the batter’s box and takes his picture-perfect stance

And on the first pitch owns the New York Met who threw him an uncutting cutter, parabolizing the ball into the left-field upper deck

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On the publicity pamphlet for the upcoming vote the city’s Chamber of Commerce had written an 800-word syllogism-laced argument in favor

Of Proposition 69 which ironically would outlaw simultaneous consensual oral sex between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM

On the basis that doing so flouted certain sacrosanct societal norms and/or cultural proprieties

And implied that the bodies of citizens belonged to themselves