Forget Magazine. Remember, Remember, Remember.

Tonight, at BC Place, not far from here, Damon Allen completed a 109-yard touchdown pass.

If you'd like some perspective, I'm about two yards tall. A CFL field, excluding the endzones, is exactly 110. A 109-yard pass, thrown from the one yard line, is the longest possible toss in the CFL – in any football league. Allen is only the fourth quarterback in CFL history to skip the usual tribulations of moving the ball upfield in fits and starts, and throw a touchdown pass from one end clear to the other. He threw for a career high 492 yards in the game and led the Lions to a come from behind 48-37 win over the previously unbeaten Alouettes. We meant to attend – forgot.

Missing "maybe the best game ever played at BC Place" was the capper to a recent series of mostly insignificant fuck-ups; a last paper cut, right between the fingers where the skin webs, that makes you howl and stop shuffling papers so recklessly for a moment.

Long enough to get this right: three excellent poems from three good people—MFD.

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