The ceiling is the roof, a poem by Michael Jordan
By Bryan Harvey
On March 4, the North Carolina Tar Heels defeated the Duke Blue Devils, evening the season series at one game apiece. However, while senior night in Chapel Hill featured the best college basketball has to offer, Michael Jordan’s halftime statement about the football program’s potential stole the show. Announcing how his Jumpman logo will adorn the team’s football gear, Jordan said of the school’s other program, “The ceiling is the roof.” Such a riddle puzzled everyone in attendance and online. What no one understood was that Jordan has taken to writing apocalyptic poetry while watching the Charlotte Hornets this season. So, here, for the first time, is the full text of Michael J. Jordan’s “The limit is the sky”:
The ceiling is the roof.
The steps are the stairs.
Bones are the body.
Chicken is the meat.
Jordan is the air—
the air up there.
Kevin is the bacon.
The bacon is the pig.
Siding is a wall.
The rug is a floor.
Dirt is grass.
Flowers are the root.
Blue in the sky.
Sky in the blue.
Devil in hell.
Heel in heaven.
2-3 4-5,
Jordan like Michael
is a name up there,
high in the rafters,
where James is Worthy,
Hansbrough a GOAT.
For Forte days and 40 nights,
the flood is the rain—
when the ceiling is a roof,
the world turns in on itself.