University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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The Football Saturday Experience Electrically charged static is becoming generated. . It crackles in the air The senses sense it. the bodies feel it, and the mind keeps it. Every anxious step multiplies itself. Many are the impressions, merging, diverging. Upon the broken pavement. Solid streets, of plasticized concrete, become continually molded a living and breathing mass of art. Curbs covered now. now exposed. Voids between lampposts fill to the brim then overflow and spill past the learned structures, the architectural feats of cherished weekly vacancies. The throng migrates. Excited sounds vibrate from the ground upward and from the center forward. Always forward The flow flows. The great tide occurs The prediction begins . . . Overcast dullness of shadowy blues disappear. It is a weekend oppostion, a consumed dwarf. v irtually eclipsed by the golden haze. The sun is out. It drips a maizen shellac Upon the blurred expressions an easy cohesion. A thickened, excited, undulating wall, a loud composition of faces, goes round and round. The end becomes the beginning, As the division evaporates and the connection occurs Now a huge circle, it surrounds and to the core, it touches down. Here, the action is neatly packaged waiting . . . only to burst open. Spurts of tension cut through the heavy wind to detonate the precious parcel Explosion.