“Football”
by
Richard Brautigan
The confidence that he got by being selected all-state in football lasted him all of his life. He was killed in an automobile accident when he was twenty-two. He was buried on a rainy afternoon.
Halfway through the burial service the minister forgot what he was talking about. Everybody stood there at the grave waiting for him to remember.
Then he remembered.
“This young man,” he said. “Played football.”
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