s j fowler

edwin valero

edwin valerosome men arrive for blood & guts & leave for different reasons

(matyrdom)

… written February 20th 2010, in good faith

he is hungry, eating at warthe boxing commission stopped him fighting on the undercard of pacquiao cotto because tests showed signs of a brain enbolysmhe had a motorcycle accident& would be forever denied his American payday

they had never seen Valero fighta bleeding of the brain would not stop a bull from goring its horns he has never known defeat(and what is rarely mentioned - he will never know defeat)

& in twenty five fights he will strafe the banners of cloud cities night with how manyknockouts he has scored twenty fivein twenty fivevalero a buttress, growling, pavementfists, a dogpack, a throwback

the venezuelan weeping angel tattoo’d on hischest of ears of teeth in smile. he comes tofight & leaves no shamed by my indicatedshrimpishness. Valero will fight!

he lives on the battled rains of Caracasstood upon his hind legs & walkingas a man would walk& wind his fists around a club

he is the four horsesrein tied to the churchhe will pull the foundations from beneath themgiven time; he will shower them all in stone

(Lady Xoc)

the brother of Yax-pacthe last king of copanwas from Palenqueshe may have brought to headthe fourth cycledredging the sacred Cenoteat chichen Itzathe rich red colourof the thorny oystershows she was on her period

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Yaxchilanthe place of the split skyon the banks of the Usumacenta riverfour hundreds years to buildarchitectsLord Shield Jaguar and his sonLord Bird Jaguar

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the Lord Shield Jaguarhold a torchthe fire illuminateskneeling before himwearing an exquisite huipilLady Xoc pulls a thorn-lined ropethrough her tonguethe rope falls onto a woven basketholding bloodsoaked strips of papercloth

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the sacrificial blood conjures up avisionary manifestation of Yat-balamfounding ancestor of the dynasty ofYaxchilan birthing jaws of a snakedouble-headed rearing above Lady Xoc

she sharpens her sting-ray spineand obsidian lance as Yat-balamprecipitates saliva

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the serpent coilsthrough a beadedbloodscroll and from its mouthan ancestorthe blood coagulates

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loversstand over a captive noblebeaded droplets on his nose and cheek8 daysto the birth of Shield Jaguar the secondan heirthe celebrations begin

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miniature cycles within the cycle swirlthe sumptuousness of the ladyBalam-Ixis stainedanother of his wivesLady Xocadorned with ornate earplugs, nosepiecebar pictoraljade cyclinder cuffsher face maskedby the feathers of a serpent skull headdressas Bird Jaguarthreadsthe bespined needlethrough his penisand proclaims his favourite

(sustantivo)

edwin valero – hugo chavez – simon

bolivar – wined lerova – ghou vazech –

monsi livarbo

(massacre of the innocents)

fragment of brutalevening when the roads leadoff into the blue, but no one

fights; the dust of the fight recallsthe dust of the fights where most

are bruised and the silencefights at stones, but nothing happens

somewhere something no one hasfought tumbles from a shelf

somewhere a meal is being preparedit becomes fruit itself

hydrogen fights exista plea to die

as people used to fightone day in ordinary

weather, whether youknow you are in a fightor know nothing

a day when as usual you haveforgotten you are fighting

(flag)

a man’s heart is readby the flag tattooed

upon his chest

(master of animals, winged human-headed animals)

rantant ra ha natantsnar rantant plorasantaa ratt comaramochat snoorunda plough ratoraconstolla matt forlorapaink scemo bestoiarymorlutto rawe cannib storkratant ratata rantanttaratta rantatrant rantpainfumes paintfumes woke

mans handsoutflanked to nettled bateouttackoutemorrettled cautthe hazantte hauteand nocksthe pologgive outthe nettled bate outflanked

sorrid mamememberanaringincluded bate netflankedcautt

rantant ra ha natantsnar rantant plorasantaa ratt comaramochat snoorunda plough ratorataratta rantatrant rant

(clippings)

“The queue of prospective fighters in line to face Manny Macquiao is now one shorter”

- Edwin Valero, the former WBC lightweight champion who recently dropped his belt to fight at light-welter, has been sent to a psychiatric hospital for six months according to reports from his native Venezuela /According to El Universal, the knockout king’s wife, Jennifer, was hospitalised suffering with bruises, a broken rib and a punctured lung. She has been treated at the same hospital for similar injuries on two other occasions and claimed she sustained the injuries after falling down the stairs / But on Sunday Valero confessed to being an alcoholic to a judge and he was sent to the San Juan de Dios hospital for six months of rehab / Trouble seems to have followed the undefeated knockout artist and while it might be society’s gain that he is off the streets, boxing has temporarily lost one of its most exciting figures.

- Since then, no challenger had come close to deposing him. However, Valero was suspended as champion having expressed his intention to move up in weight again. At the same time he was said to be grappling with a drink and drug addiction, and events took a more sinister turn when his wife, 24-year-old Jennifer Viera, was reportedly taken to hospital suffering broken ribs and a punctured lung / Valero was arrested last month, accused of harassing his wife and threatening hospital staff. Then Jennifer was found dead in a hotel in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. The boxer was again arrested, on suspicion of her murder / Police said that Valero appeared to have used his own clothes to hang himself in a police cell on April 19.

- Edwin Valero, the suspended WBC lightweight champion, has killed himself in jail just hours after being arrested on suspicion of his wife's murder, according to police. / Federal police chief, Wilmer Flores, said Valero used his own clothes to hang himself in his cell early today. Valero was apparently found by another inmate, who alerted authorities in the police lockup in the state of north-central Carabobo. Valero still showed signs of life when they took him down, but they were unable to save him and he died about 1.30am / The boxer had been arrested yesterday after police found the body of his 24-year-old wife, Jennifer Viera, in a hotel in the Venezuelan city of Valencia. Flores said Valero left the hotel room around dawn yesterday and allegedly told the hotel's security personnel that he had killed her / Valero's

lawyer, Milda Mora, did not immediately answer telephone calls seeking comment / Valero, with a record of 27-0, was suspended as the WBC lightweight champion in February. He was arrested last month on charges of harassing his wife and threatening hospital staff treating her for a punctured lung and broken ribs. He then went into drug and alcohol rehabilitation / The attorney general's office said a prosecutor had asked a court to order Valero jailed but that the judge instead placed him under a restraining order that barred him from going near his wife, a condition he repeatedly violated / Police found three stab wounds on Viera's body, but investigators who searched the hotel rooms had yet to find the weapon used in the killing, Flores said.

- World champion Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero has been found dead in a police cell after being detained for killing his wife / Police chief Wilmer Flores said Valero, 28, had tied his clothes to a cell bar and hanged himself / Valero was arrested after police officers found the body of his 24-year-old wife Jennifer Viera in a hotel in the Venezuelan city of Valencia

- The 28-year-old Venezuelan killed himself in the early hours of Monday morning after admitting to murdering his 24-year-old wife Jennifer by stabbing her to death in their hotel room at the Inter Continental Hotel in the city of Valencia. Valero was arrested for the murder and took his own life by hanging himself in his prison cell in Caracas using his own clothes / As a fighter Valero was never the big name he deserved to be in boxing.

(carakas)

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(tragedy)

chupicuaro a punching epoche drooping eyelid you, an obstacle to hassle you, blue phosphorus you, king huehueteotl, tlaloc you can’t mix traditional antidepressants with MOA inhibitors nor this shirt

repetetive concussive blows to the headcan cause degenerative mental healthincluding acute depression

his sadness is indigenousthose eight balls of ennui

he might be dead by Friday his legend to be dust by the weekend

and then where would be the fight?

boxing or boxercise is utilised as a key toolin combatting depression used by therapistsin the contemporary treatments of depression

his gentle landthe flat hand

fortunate he cut his own hair and had little appetite amidst the moneywifekiller can a man drinkand punch? they askas a primaryphysicalactivityto combat depression

he leaves behind two children

Hugo Chavez has promised thenation of Venezuela will be

their mother and father now

(death of the fire god)

heaven and earth labouredthe crimson sea laboured

and in the seathe red reed labouredfrom the reed’s tip

smoke rosefrom the reed’s tip

flame roseand in the flame

a youth was runninghe had hair of fire

a beard of flameand his eyes were suns

WHAT WE DO KNOW

HE WOULD HAVE RATHER DIEDIN THE RING