boxing splinken drunken phone call. three a.m.--an almost tearful oral dissertation on mohammed ali, the infamous match, round after round, nearly killing both men. and what can i say? i don't really know anything about boxing, but he knows everything the opponents said to each other after every blow. "boy, don't you know i'm god?" 000915 ... WishIHadBigBicepsTank i used to do the training as a tension release. then one day my instructor told me he wanted me to go 'amateur' with it. i thought about it, but i couldn't really be down with smacking the shit out of someone for 'fun'. i'll get me a heavy bag one of these days, so i can box my way safely and humanely to a stress-free life... 000915 ... werewolf "no mas...no mas...was given to us by Roberto Duran...but who had more heart than he, who had more courage" -the pugilist at rest boxing,wrestling,living 020313 ... werewolf i know this makes me sound either like i'm bragging or like i'm sick, but something feels so good about landing a tight left hook to the chin. a real connection. it doesn't feel good knowing i'm hitting him in the face, the face he has to use to smile and show wonder and attract others, or that what i'm jarring is the same brain which feels joy and sadness and all those things. what feels nice is pure physics. if you miss you swing, you move only the air, and you have to support your miss, you have to pull back all that force, it feels like the caboose tugging on the train. but when you connect, you hit right on a fault line...right on that jaw and you just feel it run through him and then back into your shoulder like dominoes. you feel that pop, the energy is returned to you almost completely. and what hasn't been, has been put into him dropping. he just drops. his eyes roll out, and you forget the grimace, the bravado he tried to shake you with. it just feels good to move something else like that...to see so clearly that you have the right amount of force to move, to matter. 021214 ... marjorie smile. y o u j u s t m i g h t figure s o m e t h i n g out 030107 ... megan i've always wanted to box someone. maybe not like get knocked out or anything extreme, just box to hit someone hard, and get hit hard back. maybe just to know i'm real. maybe just to know i can be hurt, even though i feel so good right now. to get knocked down, simply to remind myself that i can get back up if things go haywire. 030107 ... silentbob Howard, the strangest thing Has happened lately When I take a good swing And all my dreams They pivot and slip I drop my fists and they're back Laughing Howard My intention's become not to lose what I've won Ambition has given way to desperation and I Lost the fight for my eyes Boxing's been good to me, Howard Now I'm told, you're growing old The whole time we knew In a couple of years I'd be through Has boxing been good to you? Howard, now I confess, I'm scared and lonely and tired they seem to think I'm made of clay Another day, I'm not cut out for this I just know what to say, I say (chorus) Well sometimes I punch myself as hard as I can yelling "nobody cares" hoping someone will tell me how wrong I am (chorus) Has boxing been good Has boxing been good to you? benfoldsfive 030115 ... flowerock. Great for building focus and learning to move with my whole body. A stern teacher, I feel my stumbles for days and days after. Moving_meditation 160826 what's it to you? who go blather from