KO
—inspired by the Lyoto Machida-Vitor
Belfort Fight, May 12, 2018
Below the jaw—no gentle punch,
A flying kick, a dental lunch;
Incisor, cuspid, bent to munch
A bitter flavor with a crunch.
Machida hailing from Brazil,
Where masses staring, glaring, still;
He passed his foe a snoozing pill,
Out-sassed his bruising, martial skill.
Extended in a fist made dense,
Blending more than flesh: intense;
Karma, justice, providence
Combine to form a force immense.
A great one knows the uphill climb;
His fate he grows—slow, grim, sublime—
As one dim truth attends the mind:
Akin, the loss and win combine.
No loss is solely evil then,
No win’s all holy, without sin.
A man will form and sack their Troy—
Employ the storm—a rare alloy.
Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work and creative fiction have been widely published. A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.
