painter/pugilist

I did this a long time ago and found it cause i am working with creating *something*,
a *surprise* out of old journal entries.



It says thus:

Occupation: Painter/Pugilist

Let us consider
the sweetness
and exhaustion
after the turmoil
that spilt out of me in waves
crashing over the dirty floorboards of my little room
i am now painted
with the aftermath of my real work
the only work there is
literally and figuratively.
my back is brittle and sore
my hands look like splatted bruised rainbows
there is a single line of phalo blue
swiped under the hollow of my left eye
and here's the rest of me
with my rags and swabs and brushes
a prize-fighter
who took home the belt.

and then after it it has this little sketch:




Ruling!

* a pugilist is an old name for a boxer. From the Latin "pugil".