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6:20 am news
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​Sugar Ray and Abbie died today                   
both fighters, who had their say
delivering a blow backwards
on a million mile engine
through the whistling veins of America

The clown prince
changes the mask he wears
swearing through life
with superior footwork
hard speed theatrics
unmatchable leverage
Sugar Ray
name melts in your mouth
and all over

Come let's shout
Let's rock about
can't be
can't see how

Abbie and Sugar Ray 
knock your faces out
to hide or captivate
motivate, gravitate
most certainly
reciprocate the ungentle America
sleeping outside
the ease of insurance
or easy-over optimism

skinny and spry
haunting and naked
offensive with pride
shake
fake
rattle and bowl down
the frozen pins
pinching the nerves of dead America

Abbie and Sugar Ray
two hip fighters died today

Politics or liver hit
Appetites for erudite
Don't muster no noise
Unsuckled joys
Yippie Ah Eh
Embarrass them away

Abbie and Sugar Ray
two hip fighters died today

Grind the seedy
needy gravel
in the spleen of patriotism
Be the best
Be outrageous
Change your name
Change your face
Change your stripe
Plug the hype
Bound and Frown
Bring the Judges down
Rile the crowds
With a bellow
from the loin of America
Swallow no come
no welcome
no excuse of failed imagination

Abbie and Sugar Ray
Two fighters died today

Imagine the hypnotic sensuality
of turning back to matter
elemental
data
yesterdays'
pitta patta
Death is sedulous
Crassly cultivated for heroes

Sugar Ray and Abbie
Fight
Swallow cups of split second dread
America moans with proud bowed head

Sell sacred fire to mourners
Release the old body clothes
the flanks, the punches
the grunts and torque
Abbie! Sugar Ray!
Knock out power, knock out power,
​knock out power


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