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Prize Fight

I'm spitting teeth onto the pavement.

Cracked grin cracked across my mouth

like your fist as it splits my lip again.

And again.

And again.

Ribs splitting from the laugh

that is echoing across the bricks

laid psuedo-symetrically like our

best-made plans.

 

In this corner weighing in at 115 pounds

we have the hopeless romantic.

All featherweight and bones.

All martyrish and faithful.

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charles-barnett
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Jan 29, 2013
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