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#michael-holmes

for funsies, here's 10 months on HRT: a reading of Michael Holmes' tribute to Mick Foley from his collection, Parts Unknown: Wrestling, Gimmicks, and Other Works!

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The Three Faces of Mick Foley: Under Mrs. Foley's baby boy's flannel / the C-4 burns have healed (thumbtacks / burst from tender flesh like adolescent acne); / the tooth that wiggled free of sinus flotsam / to pearl like snot on a crimson mask / has joined the half-ear in his family trophy case. / Hardcore legend, king of the death match— / Hell in a Cell, the Tokyodome, the boiler room, / Philly—he's survived. Still, nothing prepared him, / psychologically, for his first bad review. / The time has come to relieve that pain. Which will / be good for Mick, but not so enjoyable for all of you. / At least that's what he tells them, what they tell / themselves. Bang bang. Groovy Daddy-O. / Have a nice day. And so the trio / hits the high lonesome; OK work—for a wrestler / haunting each of them, godawful. From New Mexico / to Long Island, the pencil-necks get a gobful of crow, / a DDT, Love Handle or Mandible Claw stew /. Foley is good, then. The ugliness lives inside all of you.

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