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Tweaking this - find some new value in the game of it.

I often found sparring sessions

to be a terrible affair

glimpses of success listed in the endowment

of a dull headache 

My ears became cotton lined bells

filling with the fluorescent chatter 

of my new all night city I call home

It always rained on those nights

or the street was always wet

too much moisture in the air

something else to blame my stiff joints on

Figuring out why you got punched is easy 

The solutions as immediate as the aftermath 

and there is something wonderful inside of that ache

having gained the knowledge and the answer

My jaw got jammed because I dropped my left hand

because I got tired

because I never woke up early enough to do quality roadwork 

because my hands got heavy

because I never ate enough to do quality PT

These are all things I could fix

These are all aches with answers

There needs to be sparring for every problem under the sun

Lovers with headgear and 18oz gloves

Accidents that only go at 50%

Roadwork for loneliness
a stranger to punch your heart over and over and over again

till you were ready for anything

ready to pick your self up off the floor
ready for nothing to hurt
or at least
ready to stand there and get hit