I like this, Ken, particularly the "forever hands of stone" and the last
lines: "lose the madness of inviting punishment to be absorbed because it's
Good For Us."
Judy
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From: "Kenneth Wolman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 2:43 PM
Subject: SnapKen, 4/19/06--IN PRAISE OF ROBERTO DURAN
> IN PRAISE OF ROBERTO DURAN
>
> In secret, in disbelief, fearing that saying so
> would make it true, people whispered
> that he'd turned coward:
> pictures were on back pages everywhere
> and pictures do not lie.
> There were the upheld gloved hands,
> los manos de piedras, and
> his famous risible words: No Mas, No Mas.
> "Enough. I have no stomach for this.
> Surrender."
>
> Who remembers the name of his opponent?
>
> In defeat, losing his monster's mask,
> he became a force in a world of the misdefined.
> Roberto Duran: vulnerability, frustration,
> forever hands of stone, turned into
> the Commendatore's statue at Don Giovanni's
> feast of undoing, come to warn us
> to amend our lives, lose
> the madness of inviting
> punishment to be absorbed
> because it's Good For Us.
>
> KTW/4-19-06
>
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> Kenneth Wolman www.kenwolman.com rainermaria.typepad.com
>
> I wouldn't want to have lived without having offended someone.--Anon.
>
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