AN OLD FASHIONED BARE KNUCKLES FISTFIGHT

with death
I've been having
from an early age.
I now look forward
to that minute's rest
between rounds.
He grins at me
& I grin back.
I know
he will take me
out
eventually
but not before
I bloody him some more.
Yes,
he will get me,
but when he does
there'll be much less
of me
to take.

Norman Savage
Greenwich Village, 2016