(From Mets General Manager Sandy Alderman’s press release addressing his team’s players celebrating by pointing their thumbs down as a response to fan jeering)

█ a post-game press ███████████████████████████ gesture ███ █████ ██ a message to fans ███████████████████████ poor performance ████ ████████████████████████████████████████████████ will not be tolerated.

██ fans are ██████████████████████████████████████ ██ ██████ ██ equal█ ██████ fans █████████████████████ own disappointment. Booing is every fan’s right.

The ██ ██████████████ gesture ██ is ████████ its meaning ██████ █ a ████ way toward ██████ will ██████████████████ convey this message directly.

MORAL: ███ fans are loyal██████████████ ██ more than willing to ██████████ love ██████████████ ████

ALEX WELLS SHAPIRO (he/him) is a poet and artist from the Hudson Valley, living in Chicago. He reads submissions for Frontier Poetry, serves as business and grants manager for Another Chicago Magazine, and co-curates Exhibit B: A Reading Series presented by The Guild Literary Complex. His debut poetry collection is forthcoming in Spring 2022 with Unbound Edition Press. More of his work may be found at www.alexwellsshapiro.com.