It seems that every time I watch a game these days

Someone is breaking a record

We like to feel like we are part of history

They make up stats we never considered

It use to be most points in a game

Now it’s most points by a father son duo

Use to be most yards

Now it’s most yards thrown by a left handed quarterback

It just keeps getting more specific

And it makes us feel like we’re part of something

We keep watching

So we can say we were at the game when Curry shot the most distant three pointer of any player in history of the game when the clock was exactly at 3:47

Remember that game?

I was there

I saw it

I lived through history

Somewhere along the lines

They realized that makes people keep watching

When all the shots have been taken

When the shooting is no longer exciting

When it’s just another season

Let’s make sure to mark some moments

Moments that might not mean anything had we not defined them

Were you alive the day

You know when those kids shot up Columbine?

There were other schools after but I don’t remember the rest

How bout Sandy hooks?

That had to be the youngest school

How bout when the man shot up the night club?

I forgot the name.

Of the man

And the club

But it was the largest mass shooting in US History

At the time

I remember that one

How bout the time the man shot all those people in Vegas?

Wasn’t that some new record

Maybe this year we’ll have the most mass shootings ever

That will be something to remember

That would keep me watching

If we were going for the record

If it might be something spectacular

Otherwise it’s just another shot

Another run

Another day

Nothing breaks

Nothing changes

No one cares

They’re just shooting

Maybe we can learn something from Sportscenter

Sometimes you gotta make up events

To excite the spectators

“The largest mass shooting against Jewish people ever”

“Against black people ever”

“Against police”

“Perpetrated by a US citizen”

“By a non us citizen”

“By a black man”

(Nah black people don’t do that shit…

Except for…okay…fuck it)

“By a Muslim terrorist”

“Islamic radical”

“By a white man”

It’s gonna be hard to break that record

They always setting the record

They always making the record

Maybe we can start letting some of these black folks shot by the police break records too you know?

“Black man shot by the police had the most golds in his mouth ever”

“Had the most amount of money in his pocket ever”

Or maybe just, “graduated college.”

Something to distinguish between

This one and the last one

I’m losing track

The records are blending together

They’re getting messy

They mean nothing

Unless we make them

Because too many shots have been taken

For me to be amazed by any one in particular

So keep shooting y’all

And we’ll worry about the labels

Because the shot itself

Is not enough