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what you shouldn’t have done but did anyway
these are your regrets with lowercase rs
what you should have done but did not
those are the Regrets in R’s uppercase

and if at first you don’t succeed
try again in a different way
because try trying again just the same
would fail and fail in madness

millions of people play baseball
and six or seven hundred get to
play in the major leagues
at any given time
most of them are millionaires
a few dozen of those hundreds
who are perennial stars
are not only millionaires
they’re paid tens of millions a year
and they’re international heroes

in a world of seven billion people
you could be the nine hundredth best
baseball player on the planet
elite beyond elite
literally better than one in a million
and not be elite enough
just miss the cut
and be some schmuck
that maybe a few nerds
know as a line on a stat sheet
toiling away riding old buses
in Omaha in Rochester
because you were astonishing
amazing!
but not quite amazing enough
just missed
and it’s not fair
but you’re not gonna change it

and if at first you don’t succeed
try again in a different way
because try trying again just the same
would fail and fail in madness

what you shouldn’t have done but did anyway
these are your regrets with lowercase rs
what you should have done but did not
those are the Regrets in R’s uppercase