O fashion:
Bellator, like humanity,
is a wall of human faces
being human.
PRELIMS INTRO
Every human being is a faith machine
, don’t argue back.
Faith that we all agree the sky is blue
, faith that when we turned around what we just came from is still there.
I come to Bellator because
of the faith.
CHRIS HERRERA VS LUC BONDOLE
This was a difficult 2nd round KO and
Bellator is my friend who’s going through a hard time
, and they keep telling me about how they’re going to turn it around
, and I keep agreeing, keep hanging out, keep feeling a lowness inside me
when I listen, keep seeing things
get worse.
I’ve been the
re.
CHRIS HERRERA VS LUC BONDOLE
“Just like Mike Tyson in Tokyo
25 years ago.”—commentary.
Really?
CHRIS HERRERA VS LUC BONDOLE
CONTENT
Here are some monoliths.
ALBERT MORALES VS FABIAN GONZALEZ
This is a deeply spiritual experience
, don’t lie to me.
In the face of this powerful psychedelia knowledge
deluge acid content soak we have
good ol’ nicknames to recognize each other like glands for smell do.
I’ve seen 11 year old girls, best friends now in a blood feud
fight: pitbulls.
Pitbulls. It’s the only thing that makes sense.
SPECTACLE MYOPIA
is what’s on my mind
and SPECTACLE MYOPIA is the juice augered from the zeitgeist:
the sudden shock of it all, that something
, without consideration for the human binary of feelings.
A black and white rainbow
made out of pictures of abuse.
Kimbo Slice, age 41 and 2 bum knees
being resigned to Bellator.
The tunnel vision shock of the new,
the spectacle for spectacle itself,
the explosion without the controlosphere
, no blast radius, no damage
plan.
No
zone.
ALBERT MORALES VS FABIAN GONZALEZ
Even a victory for humans is a loss:
for example,
I don’t hate you, but I have to soak you in blood and tap you out
because entertainment was how we made our ways in the world
, with our free will we built cages,
amen.
DANNY NAVARO VS DEREK ANDERSON
Anderson says he’ll win in round 1.
Bellator has a history of liars.
Or mistaken bravado.
Whatever.
DANNY NAVARO VS DEREK ANDERSON
Anderson looks like someone should be
winning: flesh
a bit more taught, attire
a bit more snug, or more color appealing,
Like the body has been designed for the spectacle. Like
at a funeral.
Clothing waves falling from the corpse like it’s
alive still. Anyway
this is only for drunks.
Stream watching is a beautiful image
Served starkly literal online:
12 people are watching this stream.
DANNY NAVARO VS DEREK ANDERSON
Navarro now
a blood clown
A Barney film.
Stay away from Cremaster fans.
I worked at an indie video store
when they weren’t extinct.
I have a VHS consciousness.
Believe me.
Sometimes selling yourself
despite the talk
means becoming a wind tunnel man,
a fan man on the sidewalk blowing up on a gorgeous day.
The sun curves the earth the breath the breeze
just so:
A TKO win for Derek Anderson
because Navaro was not
under
himself.
STEVE KOZOLA VS JOHNATHAN RIVERA
Dave and Buster’s
is your Chicken Dripper Sad Cone Bone Zone™.
For a minute I forgot bro zone content
Was for the sleepy bones
STEVE KOZOLA VS JOHNATHAN RIVERA
I am a
volcano.
No forms can
stuff me.
THE SINGING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
A waving, shadowed flag on the Jumbotron.
A jumbotron might be the best living relic of the best and most ridiculous in us.
Blood in nebulas flecks
the mat white.
A teen girl is singing.
My god my
Nation everything
is body armor.
JOHN SALTER VS DUSTIN JACOBY
I wear a mask.
JOHN SALTER VS DUSTIN JACOBY
The Nick Diaz of ground and pound.
I love when Bellator references UFC.
For a moment we’re being real,
we are hanging out
, and we are not
Selling.
At the same time, we are the laconic spirit
of the dollar store.
JOHN SALTER VS DUSTIN JACOBY
John salter wins w rear naked choke
all over him.
Russell Edson’s conjugal.
A good wrestler will go like butter through you.
A good wrestler will
butter you—
JASON GLAZA VS EVERETT CUMMINGS
HERE WE GO WE
are both exhausted.
Celestine got a bath
who won?
MAIN CARD STARTS
My daughter eats
like an oracle.
MARIUS ŽAMROSKIS VS FERNANDO GONZALEZ
How we try to be that
shock of the new
Like how I had a Cronut once.
But it turned out after I was the same person.
MARIUS ŽAMROSKIS VS FERNANDO GONZALEZ
Gonzelez the American comeback.
ZAMROSKIS the yesteryear warrior who doesn’t know the meaning of the word quit,
He doesn’t know many meanings at all,
in general
Despite this I
keep coming back to the thousands of Nigerians massacred
by Boko Haram—
children left slit open and missing limbs, women left raped in the roads.
Old men sat in chairs, their throats slit red and sunlit,
and this for miles and miles. Unfathomable even for it to happen to one
person, but this to thousands. Violence:
Bellator just wants to put on a show to get those fringe fans,
fans like me who want access to something. We raise our hands in protest
but one of my junior high students, 12, black, with plastic rimmed glasses
that become sunglasses in the sun, said that maybe we should have done things like Malcolm X, and maybe then we wouldn’t be here now—
with Ferguson, with NYC cops, with dead black men, some with names
and many stripped of them relegated to police reports and obituaries,
if those at all. Maybe violence is the access we seek access to through violence. People need to feel access to something.
MARIUS ŽAMROSKIS VS FERNANDO GONZALEZ
Everything but
nothing happened.
Like life:
the worst cliché of all time
is to never give up.
Never giving up ignores
perhaps the most palpable
part of the human experience.
HOUSTON ALEXANDER VS VIRGIL ZWICKER
Today I got a $20 at the CVS and broke it by buying Altoids,
and the cash drawer got stuck.
And the manager came, a thin woman in a gigantic shirt,
thick black glasses, golden blond curls falling over the rock face of the glasses while
she, smiling, meticulously opening the drawer with sleeves of bacon under her armpit.
Houston Alexander is this to MMA to me.
HOUSTON ALEXANDER VS VIRGIL ZWICKER
The story of this one
is that Houston Alexander headbutted Zwicker
to lose points,
but he’s decided he didn’t actually headbutt him
, so he wants a rematch.
Zwicker wants a rematch because Alexander headbutted him.
What does it mean to be former executioner?
Touted by UFC but suddenly not brutal, not heartless enough
, not a true destroyer.
What does it mean to wear the halo gleam
of
former true destroyer?
HOUSTON ALEXANDER VS VIRGIL ZWICKER
Uncle vs uncle
in a backyard battle
of who can make the corn better
: the tempo.
“Two very skillful fighters, Jimmy.”
-the other announcer, to Jimmy.
Cynicism is what seperates people from the animals.
Zwicker wins a cynical decision.
GEORGI KARAKHANYAN VS BUBBA JENKINS
Bubba Jenkins with a gigantic t shirt
and life tragedy.
Georgi with a lifelong dream to be a soccer star
but this is ok, pretty much.
GEORGI KARAKHANYAN VS BUBBA JENKINS
Hold me
until he’s dead!
GEORGI KARAKHANYAN VS BUBBA JENKINS
PATRICIO PITBULL VS DANIEL STRAUS
I MUST
CHOKE
And the heavy metal
background music:
Blood drip splatter lines like night snow
cuts swaths of the road lit by car lights
like a tiger patrolling the night’s swaths cut
in the orange of it’s alert—nature says
you’re too dangerous, so
we make you loud.
PATRICIO PITBULL VS DANIEL STRAUS
Those last way
ward days.
Secondary MMA on
TV, or just OK movies
at the mega google plex,
Why do they have a one guy working?
It’s the series of interlocking decisions businesses make that effect the rippling tempos of our days latticed around them
, no,
More like pooled around them.
It’s the pool of consciousness whose rocks,
through ticket taker decision making,
Crash our Oregon trail vessels
, sink our food supplies, wreck our clothes.
You’ve got your narrative,
I’ve got my narrative,
And who
cares?
It’s beautiful out
side.
