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Give In to Tim Riggins–Inspired Poetry

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Friday Night Lights went off the air over three years ago, but it continues to inspire the world in so many ways. Poet Nico Alvarado has four Tim Riggins–inspired poems in the winter-spring 2014 edition of the the University of Houston’s literary journal Gulf Coast. There’s Tim Riggins Speaks of Waterfalls,” the not-online “Tim Riggins Imagines Heaven” and “Tim Riggins in Midland County Jail,” and this brief gem, called “Tim Riggins Invents a New Number”:

I love you so much

I want to bury my fist in your chest.

Eleventeen.

Give In to Tim Riggins–Inspired Poetry