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The speaker describes passing and taking a shot, then writes about a child and the sameness of players across racial identity. The speaker asks others about the universe.

After repeating the choice between passing and taking a shot, the speaker turns to God and a child. The fragment God was headed that leaves the connection unclear; it does not describe a healing. The speaker returns to asking others about the universe.

Under the typed title 'Basketball', four lines set 'Looking theother way / and having someone else do it' against 'looking down your noise / and doing it yourself'. A handwritten passage follows: 'God was headed that,', then 'A child, black or white / there was no way, / whatever the player / Becomes is the same', and the speaker says 'I went in the next / day and asked them / About the universe'.

The typed half repeats the collection's contrast between passing and shooting, while the handwritten half widens it toward a claim that the game treats every player the same regardless of color. The opening handwritten line, 'God was headed that,', is obscure and is left as written rather than explained.