Trash Talk at the Presser Y’all have to wonder abouttheir affectations of slam champand how they get to dishout the straps these days.It’s enough to make me want todig out my old highlight reels. The way he enters the ringall bug eyed with chest heaving,juiced up to the max with postmodernist metaphors; his treetrunk armsContinue reading “Trash Talk at the Presser”
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Post Match Analysis
Post Match Analysis If you really want to know,ask a dying person she saidsotto voce, while teeming dross bucketed from an embarrassed skyoutside my kitchen window.Sweeping diagonally, deliberatelyas if to make a point;cut through all the crap. While old Hughie pontificatedon the outcome of too manyturn-overs—chances gone begging;no bottle at the breakdown ofplay & let’sContinue reading “Post Match Analysis”
Shadow Commentary
The way he extracts datafrom his glazed opponentis a marvel of second sight. It’s all in the knowing what’sto come before the other knows. It’s a cinematic play of sinew andreflex; viewed through thetwin orbital tunnels of hisglassy eyed stare. ©️Orion Foote, 2021
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