Tuesday, September 30, 2008

14. GREAT LUCK THE FIGHTER HAS

GREAT LUCK THE FIGHTER HAS
Great luck the fighter has who -
leaning back on the ropes - falls to
the stands as those ropes break;
who - clutching the mouthpiece in
his clenched teeth - gets hit in the jaw
and gags on it instead.
Who gets punched out of his boxer shorts.
Who falls UP instead of down after a hard left
hook that does him in. Who falls only so
slowly to the mat where he finally passes
out - no mere TKO this, a full-blown KO instead.
Who, when he sits back on his corner stool,
has the stool break beneath him and gets
impaled by the broken shaft of a leg.

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