This former Association act cannot for his life remember
the blur, the stir, the unheralded journey of his NBA tenure,
seven in eleven, he donned the jersey of many a team
but all his hopes of settling down would be but only a dream,
if only this guard hadn’t resembled a trainer stretching out Hakeem
or a new ball boy, eyes wide, full of unfazed esteem,
then he might have gotten more run for his body,
the vagabond himself, the lefty, John Crotty