HOW THE EARTH WILL END

God, almighty hurler,
tossed the earth into
the universe with a spin.
Now imagine this.
What if his giant hand
had gripped it like a split-finger,
curve, slider, slurve, or change-up?
Better yet, if he had a sense of humor,
he might have positioned
his knuckles on the equator
and in tribute to Niekro, Dickey,
Wakefield, Wilhelm, Hough, Candiotto
flipped us through space –
a giant knuckleball
to puzzle aliens for eternity.