he felt set upon

                           assaulted and peppered

pounded out like flank steak

by conniving  conspirital  actors(ready for ghosts choruses and Greek Tragedy)

tiring him out  he tried to temper its maleficence

running gradients through it  striping it top to bottom  so he might better manage it                          

though his first inclination was to punch it in the mouth 

                                                                                            split its cruel curled lips                 

and trying to temper it

he remembered back to the clear high hills of his good health(he never took for granted)

suddenly trumped by pain

healing 

health trumping it

then trumped again suddenly by pain

if he cared to really remember  they were a series of painted images splashed haphazardly on the walls of his cave  

resembling explosions of himself running headlong into it or a brick wall decloaked before he could brake or swerve around it  no matter his agility 

                                                  and he was

he was tough to get off his feet

though  perhaps  thats why It used a ball peen hammer against him

he wondered what the Greeks would say  their explanation

they  like the Jews and Germans always had an explanation for Everything

whether in a word  or Most Dramatick 

and he discovered as he thought he would  the Greeks  who had their Plato and Aristotle  ran the table of the Human brain trust  had the myth of Epimetheus(literally  Afterthinker) Father of Excuses husband of Pandora(the first woman) and twin brother of Prometheus(literally  forethinker)(Whodda thought)

in his dialogue Protagorus Plato said

                                                            Epimetheus, the being in whom thought follows production, represents nature in the sense of materialism, according to which thought comes later than thoughtless bodies and their thoughtless motions(muthafucker must have had a crystal ball and stared into the Twenty-First Century)

(in Greek  --  dig it)  Επιμηθέας, το ον στο οποίο σκέψη εξής παραγωγής, αντιπροσωπεύει χαρακτήρα υπό την έννοια του υλισμού, σύμφωνα με την οποία η σκέψη έρχεται αργότερα από ό, τι αλόγιστη φορείς και απερίσκεπτη κινήσεις τους.

the Yiddish  more thrifty  had trepverter  --  staircase words

the Germans took a loan borrowing  treppenwitz

and Diderot  the French philosopher  scribbled l'esprit d'escalier writing

                                                                                                                    a sensitive man, such as myself, overwhelmed by the argument leveled against him, becomes confused and can only think clearly again (when he reaches) the bottom of the stairs

sadly the Americas or English withers pales in comparison
                                                                                               afterwit

Hammered 

                   the only thing to do  again  was to mend  dust himself off  and start all over

he threw away his towel long ago when he saw during a Golden Gloves tournament a boxers Corner could throw it

into the ring over the ropes and stop the fight

watching boxers cry   because the decision was taken out of their hands

damn near broke his heart

Who the fuck was bleeding

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