PROLOGUE: UFC FIGHT PASS FIGHT LIBRARY ACQUISITION ANNOUNCEMENT
We live in a crossroads universe. At least you do if you’re a person.
Scratch the gold and praise be the verdigris.

The reason being at a crossroads assessor significant and relatable part of the
human experience

is because human beings are wired to be at a crossroads constantly
at every second of their lives.

We were a crossroads people when it’s all said and done
and the infrastructure’s patina’s set in.

We’re at the crossroads of generations of MMA.
We’re at the crossroads of poets

who’ve emerged from the internet to be forces in contemporary poetry meeting those who came about it the more “traditional way:”

being white
and erudite.

Where in a world of narrative access does not require
anyone riding the roads.

This is an acquisition of many libraries
This is the future of television. Now’s a crossroads of the generation

that had Saturday morning cartoons and wood paneling to distract from the outer domicile to commercial jingles for Tootsie Rolls

on Star Spangled Banner mornings day after day spike into a generation of specially tailored content for binging slaking the—singing? drooling?

moaning sadly? laughing cleverly?–
one that has everything they want to binge at their fingertips

One day the episodic serial will be decorative in its antiquity, and therefore a commodity. But that day is not today.

WE ARE LIVE!
The lonely war.

UFC FIGHT PASS PRELIMS INTRO
All the world in packages
, now broken into two types:

video
and not.

Is there anything sadder than “reliving?”
It’s impossible to imitate the truth of life

, the only active truth we know. You
know?

Even speaking to you this way
I am prone to truth.

Laying prone, inhaling content:
that’s reliving.

ALEXIS DUFRESNE VS MARION RENEAU
This baby
will not sleep.

Anyway here
are the Druids.

ALEXIS DUFRESNE VS MARION RENEAU
it’s funny to see the emphasis on
The skinny Dufresne being overweight (138)

And the 37 year old Reneau being old.
It’s not a women thing but an MMA thing.

Funny’s not the word.
Something.

ALEXIS DUFRESNE
Nick Demske

ALEXIS DUFRESNE VS MARION RENEAU
This is such a brutal ass kicking.
Joe Rogan is begging for this to stop.

And can you get on board with the hypothetical pain suddenly spun real like a body mirror spun to reveal a secret dungeon?

That’s really what I’m paying for
, what we are all paying for with our obedience to content:

begging, agony, physical and spiritual destruction:
junk we can feel without feeling there.

ALEXIS DUFRESNE VS MARION RENEAU
For the record,
that is.

Joe Rogan saying that you, you in the UFC right now,
aren’t putting in a UFC performance?

And this on the same card as MMA super god Jon Jones
and undefeated Olympic hero Daniel Cormier?

The point is we’re still living
in an era of wildness.

OMARI AKHMEDOV VS MATS NILSSON
A big understated part of our overcoming-the-odds squabble narrative
like dark matter is a big understated part of reality’s nebbish fabric

is having your name pronounced
correctly.

OMARI AKHMEDOV VS MATS NILSSON
Carleen is holding me to watching Battlestar Galactica
just because I said the prelims

don’t matter. She asks me not to tag her
, but everything is a monument.

If we’re stuck on earth indeed
we’re stuck being slaves to provocative content.

The best we can do is
enshrine

until our totems are tall enough to hopefully see
greater distances from atop.

OMARI AKHMEDOV VS MATS NILSSON
On the ground
HELP! HELP! HELP!

Big lift and slam to the ground
The wet of the meat the canvas the dead field. It is winter and

I learned a new excuse from
work today (technically from a parent who texted me):

I can do anything I want, anything,
and if you do anything back to me I’ll have a stroke.

COMMENTARY IN RARE FORM TONIGHT! MUST BE THE EXCITEMENT
“You speak
of right hands”–Goldberg

“Every punch is…”
(Extremely long pause)

“Muscular punches”
–Rogan

RODRIGO DAMM VS EVAN DUNHAM
Now we have to go upstairs to a get-to-know-your-neighbors
party.

I don’t like going to things
most of the time.

Just because I love to talk
people assume I like going to things.

I’d just like to watch UFC forever
on Saturdays.

There’s very heavy, oily cheese dip at this party.
It’s a lot like what I’m reading about this fight.

RODRIGO DAMM VS EVAN DUNHAM
Last chances. Long shot.
Great radio. Distances.

JARED CONNONIER VS SHAWN JORDAN
the heavyweight division is the closest to the animal kingdom.
There’s a circle of equilibrium/consumption

of animals that eat each other and then are carved out of the hierarchy and stuffed on a shelf if they’re too close to the top. That’s Cain Valasquez’ job. He’s the division’s human.

The food chain does a ring around the rosie with a human in the middle
to cherry pick from it when something appealing is in eyeshot. Content shot.

Don’t make the fatal mistake
that just because humans aren’t animals

they’re
special.

MARCUS BRIMAGE VS CODY GARBRANDT
Brimage is the hyper-real billboard in this case
between the divide between the thrill of video gaming

and what a ding dong you look like
intensely playing them.

Cody Garbrandt is what you look like
when you want to personify zeal with tattoos and a haircut.

These are what both men look like.
I’m still upstairs at a party, by the way.

We are standing at the table’s edge by the Christmas trees—not tree
but plastic green trees dusted in artificial snow, strings of off-white lights

and a Christmas train set and dim lighting and books with red and brown spines and dust, dust the thing we relate to probably most in the universe.

And here is Kaydria, the very sweet daughters of our neighbors—
they love Christmas, she is developmentally disabled and loves karaoke

and gets photos albums of her dressed as different Lord of the Rings
characters. Everything is so ornamental, and my child is strapped to me

with a bjorn.
A sweat circle unifies where her body meets mine between a shirt.

Every now and then from within smellshot of cheese dip,
for example,

humanity is
really worth it.

DANNY CASTILLO VS PAUL FELDER
Some people just complain about
everything.

It’s so sad
: anti charisma? Beta people? Those people you just want to see fail.

There’s a word for this in German.
I really understand this

, it’s why I watch so much
reality tv and you do too.

It’s so sad
, I just love you.

DANNY CASTILLO VS PAUL FELDER
Oh my fuck HOLE
there’s nothing but a spinning backfist

IN THIS WORLD
OFTEN

in so many
ways.

http://youtu.be/o0EUleygJtI

JOSH BURKMAN VS HECTOR LOMABRD
Everyone in America
deserved a second chance.

Or more
Despite.

JOSH BURKMAN VS HECTOR LOMABRD
My kid won’t sleep. My kid
Won’t eat. My kid just wants to

smile and kick and play with life
itself.

, the way I want
to feel, and I want to feel happier for her.

but parents, you’ll know
an exhaustion.

JOSH BURKMAN VS HECTOR LOMABRD
This one is like the Tasmanian devil
vs the intrepid protagonist in you.

We have so many clichés about size
, probably because of our history.

The monster is always a spirit thing
, isn’t that great?

KYOJI HORIGUCHI VS LOUIS GADINOT
I’m on the couch,
which is stabilizing to me. It’s a vacation as a new parent from

the sequence of rooms you learn to run like you’re affixed to a track:
certain highways to work, corridors, where the baby sleeps,

the kitchen, the bedroom. My kid won’t sleep
and I don’t want to go back to work

and we are out of money
and our kid won’t eat

and our kid won’t sleep and our kid won’t sleep and
our kid won’t sleep.

KYOJI HORIGUCHI VS LOUIS GADINOT
I’m losing
this fight.

KYOJI HORIGUCHI VS LOUIS GADINOT
Our kid has gotten quieter at this point
which is some time later.

This fight is slow, technical, and the announcers
say mmm and ooh a lot impressed with the slow, technical

skill. I want everything to be this way now. Slow,
technical. Like it’s later.

KYOJI HORIGUCHI VS LOUIS GADINOT
Stop these hammer fists,
slow this oblivion.

BRAD TAVARES VS NATE MARQUARDT
Everyone really is racist. A part of growing up is learning that.
If I was black,

I’d want a beard. And glasses. I have those things now.
I think I’d want them

if I was black.
If I was black I think I’d want those things.

BRAD TAVARES VS NATE MARQUARDT
This is a battle of the living dead vs the reanimated.
Living dead in the black

, reanimated in the blue.
Trepidation. Waiting to hit. Waiting in any case.

Do you ever hear the violins?
Do you ever hear the tune up?

BRAD TAVARES VS NATE MARQUARDT
Painkillers, water, carrots, hummus,
a fight online over the illegal pay-per-view stream.

It belongs to king_mike and king_mike
doesn’t want people on it without his permission.

MYLES JURY VS COWBOY CERRONE
Game changer
, life hack,

I am to life a humble servant
and this is our gospel ™.

MYLES JURY VS COWBOY CERRONE
If this was pro wrestling in the glory days,
a few months ago, an Anthony Pettis video package

where he talked about returning from injury
set to bone-crushing nu-metal would

set the fans alight, concluding with a smile and a catch phrase from
the champ.

The show would begin, the lights come up around the jumbotron,
the fans cheer, the camera whipping through them like snow cutting the highway,

and Gilbert Melendez would come to the ring.
Cool, collected—a tweener, not a villain but not a traditional hero.

He would remind the champ that he’s keeping his belt warm. Music hits!
Here comes Rafael Dos Anjos, a house of fire. He’s furious

, but he’s a good guy, but a hothead—no catch phrases. He’s worked the hardest, he tells us, and the people of Brazil won’t be denied their

rightful championship! NOW IS HIS TIME! And—Music hits! He rolls his head, the camera follows: here comes Cowboy Cerrone

to deafening cheers! Boys, says the drawling hero from under his rest oil hat,
I believe you’re talking

about somethin’ that’s mine. And I think
—pause for cheers—these people

want to see Cowboy get his revenge and ride off into the sunset
with that belt. Cheers—music hits!

On the big screen, it’s Khabib Nurmegomedov!
You Americans are weak, and it’s Russia’s time,

he says from under his giant furry hat. Cowboy: take off your pom pom
and come out here like a man! Cheers—music hits!

No, no, no no no—boos, for here come Myles Jury! It’s MY TIME,
the young upstart demands. It’s my destiny!

Here comes Dana White to the stage:
“Gentlemen…it’s going to be tough road ahead, and you all have valid

claims here. Melendez, you’ll get your shot. You’ve waited long enough
and you have the Ultimate Fighter stock to prove it.

Khabib, you’re hurt, and you have as much chance of fighting for the belt right now as you do any of these fans taking you seriously with that hat on (cheers).

Dos Anjos…you’ll get a shot…provided you can get through Stockton’s own
Nate Diaz! (huge cheers) That’s right.

Jury: What about me?! WHAT ABOUT ME? IT’S MY TIME!
White: It IS your time, it IS your time…to fight Cowboy Cerrone! (cheers)

That would have been then.
Here’s where we are now.

This is a long and lonely war.
You’ve gotta get creative.

MYLES JURY VS COWBOY CERRONE
Celestine pooped and then needed to be fed.
…

This is the era of content.
Behold our hamlet communities of self-flagellating takers.

The sun every day is hi-res
, the comments, the stream!

My god, there’s so much, so much to take, so much to take in,
so much content.

So much content and not enough ways to
deliver it.

MYLES JURY VS COWBOY CERRONE
Sometimes, however,
we got so angry.

http://youtu.be/gRmlkulqiaI

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
Love transcends all.

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
But NOTHING is better than UFC
except sex as a manifestation of love.

Nothing is as good. Nothing
transcends.

NOTHING
but the moment

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
god

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
It is Jon jones
who does the will of god on earth.

Flawed, transcendent, beyond,
indirect;

Setting not just trends and
movements but trends for movements.

God speaks to us in common ways.
‘Let’s find our waterfalls.”

says his coach.
Indirect, beyond,

a movement. This is not the will of god,
it’s just that god is will.

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
HUGE ELBOWS AND KNEES!

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
In the corner of god’s rep on earth
the apostles:

Keep moving that
fucking head.

We are all
so fallible.

Jon Jones rep of god on this plane
Is the long stick by which we measure this fallibility by.

Huge sidekick
to the neck!

A lot will be made of Jones holding Cormier’s
head down with the palm of his hand

while Cormier, exhausted, is crouched against the cage.
Like taming an animal—no,

like providing
the Eucharist.

A NOTE ON EYE POKES
I know this:
you’re making love to your wife. Not having sex,

making love, together, truly one on a fluid level,
close to the singularity, the embryo, the beginning spark,

that which is inseparable from god, our cosmological microorigins
and the baby starts screaming for her bottle.

And you have to sit on the end of the bed, panting, with the light on
feeding her her bottle. Your wife is under the blanket, then

checking her phone, and you are wiping bottle spittle and
neck dribblings.

That’s what an eye poke is
during a fight.

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
Talk about a splash of cold water to the nuts
when you’re making love.

Not even having sex, making love, totally bonded together! Boom, cold water to the nutsack sack and all the lights come on.

We begin round 4.
We begin:

And to begin round 4
, we begin round 4.

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
DC is getting gassed. God
I can feel my own mortality.

He is such an athlete but
mortal. Here in the 5th is

our reminder
, amen.

JON JONES
I am
god’s milk.

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
Whatever you believe in
, you can be rest assured that god

is a
reminder.

JON JONES VS DANIEL CORMIER
That weight of heavy reality is
starting to sink us.

ONE LAST SLAM

JON JONES
I saw him look up at the clock
and smile

An early celebration AND
a suck it!

You can’t write this stuff.
Slaves to narratives or no

, writing accomplishes almost nothing
constantly.

JON JONES
I never want the content to
end.

EPILOGUE: JON JONES CHECKS INTO REHAB FOR COCAINE ADDICTION,
UFC ISSUES STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
God isn’t to me this big moral compass in the sky. God is indirect. God levels things and allows scales to be tipped in cosmic ways. God is not a person or extra special close with people. That’s why you can hate Jon Jones but his elbows will destroy you. Just like god–nature–does. But again, it was cocaine all along.

Tick one box:
Life goes on

☐until the end
☐without end