Cultural Front: The Big Smoke: "Sporting Life"

Cultural Front: The Big Smoke: "Sporting Life": [ The Big Smoke reading group ] Adrian Matejka opens the second section of The Big Smoke with the poem “Sporting Life.” This poem is the...From reading this poem, I paid attention to the third and fourth stanzas of the poem which summarizes the poem by saying that life is life. For an example, I grew up having very little and had to work for everything that I own.I have friends who grew up with a lot and it makes me wonder what if I was like them, or I suppose I had money to begin with. However, my life wasn't meant to be starting off "sporting" or "ballin", I have to work and earn that pleasure.