Thursday, October 13, 2011

the ten dollar wrestler


10 dollar wrestler
low on the card
blood lank hair
blackened eye

payday reluctantly pulled
from deep in the till
two crumpled fives

swollen fist shoved

soft left nostril dabs
slow the red trickle
hurting...beat...hoping
to be booked next week

12 comments:

  1. I agree with Juice - vividly written!

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  2. I like your wrestler. Wonderful pictures, few words!

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  3. What a sad tale and a wonderful poem! Thank you for sharing this scene.

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  4. Hey OO great imagery and nice bit of hope at the end. The wrestling hall of fame is next door to my diner and Paul Bearer (former Undertaker manager) was there, my wife got an autographed photo with him.

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  5. what an issue! I think not many people have ever written a poem about wrestler... interesting.. :)

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  6. I love seeing poems written on a different kind of subject. Gotta echo what everyone else has been saying, the imagery in this poem is so vivid!

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  7. ten dollar wrestler is a sad pathetic concept and person

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