Hands up to lights, holding wide, golden belts or diamond-encrusted women up. Spray-tanned fat roll over tights, thinned hair a mess, cut on forehead channeling blood around white of beady eyes popped, enthralled, neon-laced boots full of sweat, glory. A plateau of continuous flying elbows, titles, the shots that make each bench press feel like coming inside your arms. Figure-four leg-locks and hair-pulling, protein shakes and oxycodone. The same urge toward staid stories of disgrace, loss and the road to triumph, its dazzling electric pulse. The words that get peppered onto the adversary are incomprehensible, but livid, calling enemies Brotha! Like Brotha, do you understand, you've broken my back and disgraced me! But Brotha, you can't keep a snake in a box and take away its light and then not expect that snake to BREAKFREE AND STRIKE, cause that snake's got a fire inside! A raging fire that is OUT OF CONTROL And this Memorial Day, Brotha, at Nassau Colosseum, that fire's gonna take you and BURN YOU and that snake will become a RAGING DRAGON with WINGS that BREATHESFIRE and it's gonna be OUTTACONTROOOOL!!
It is the same spirit who is portrayed in vivid, awful tattoos, the basic idea being A SCREAMING EAGLE IS COMING FROM MY ARM, who rides with victors through every shooting of the man who fucked your wife, the bellowing Drill Sargent who kicks your worm ass through basic and gets you through bloody sand and mortar a man, back to Fort Collins, a stream of montages with crunching guitars, about running and punching red-gristled sides of beef in a meat locker, in your infinitesimal personal squalor, rising. The blonde spirit crouched on the hood of a Dodge Charger with breast implants and a banana yellow bikini, holding AKs, whose mouth is fireworks and threats. The spirit who leaves its charge one night full of slipped disks and corroded knees, swimming in dope and reading the family Bible, seeing the final angel as a serpent coiling through the words and his message is written in smoke, until the realization in deafening light of what it means and he goes to raise himself and his sleeping family to the enrapture of the highest glory of all.
