<\/small><\/small>He had been in a hell of a fight In our garage, the heavy bag swung, Home now, after five days in the hospital, He had been in a hell of a fight like being kicked twenty times in the head. Of course, he would know, like that time coming out of Driscoll\u2019s, fighting those three guys from the flats, the tall one saying, This stupid shit won\u2019t stay down. But they just didn\u2019t get it. No one ever … Continue reading Dead Reputations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3604,"featured_media":1055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"issue":[6872],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","issue-6872"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/env-greenfieldcc-dev.kinsta.cloud\/plum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlike being kicked twenty times in the head.
\nOf course, he would know,
\nlike that time coming out of Driscoll\u2019s,
\nfighting those three guys from the flats,
\nthe tall one saying,
\nThis stupid shit won\u2019t stay down.
\n<\/em>But they just didn\u2019t get it.
\nNo one ever put him down.<\/p>\n
\nthe weight of some dead reputation.
\nIt happens sometimes to boys,
\nthe ones brought up on myths,
\non the souls of men always told
\nto take the first shot.
\nIn our world,
\nthere was no such thing as a sucker punch.<\/p>\n
\nafter ten hours of surgery,
\nmy brother, sober for years,
\nhis neck carved out like a tree through wires,
\nturns to me, dips low, feints to the right,
\nand hisses\u2014
\nTumors are some nasty shit man\u2014
\n<\/em>then comes up fast with a hook to my body.
\nGotcha!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"