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once upon a time certain honorees

were given a key to the city

by the city’s grateful mayor

in phoenix arizona where i now live

my town waited till 2019

and gave its first key to randy johnson

johnson has become a photographer

but in the fall classic of 2001

he won the world series for the arizona diamondbacks

he was our paul bunyan

stilt-leggedly striding to the pitcher’s mound

a lawnmower mowing down the opposition

he killed a pigeon once

fastball turning an unlucky bird to feathers

the ball he threw was also ruled dead

so we gave this freak of nature a free key

and phoenix became the land of the freak,

home of the bravo, in the key of d-backs