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edwin valero some men arrive for blood & guts & leave for different reasons


(matyrdom) ‌ written February 20th 2010, in good faith

he is hungry, eating at war the boxing commission stopped him fighting on the undercard of pacquiao cotto because tests showed signs of a brain enbolysm he had a motorcycle accident & would be forever denied his American payday they had never seen Valero fight a 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 many knockouts he has scored twenty five in twenty five valero a buttress, growling, pavement fists, a dogpack, a throwback the venezuelan weeping angel tattoo’d on his chest of ears of teeth in smile. he comes to fight & leaves no shamed by my indicated shrimpishness. Valero will fight! he lives on the battled rains of Caracas stood upon his hind legs & walking as a man would walk & wind his fists around a club he is the four horses rein tied to the church he will pull the foundations from beneath them given time; he will shower them all in stone


(Lady Xoc) the brother of Yax-pac the last king of copan was from Palenque she may have brought to head the fourth cycle dredging the sacred Cenote at chichen Itza the rich red colour of the thorny oyster shows she was on her period ~ Yaxchilan the place of the split sky on the banks of the Usumacenta river four hundreds years to build architects Lord Shield Jaguar and his son Lord Bird Jaguar ~ the Lord Shield Jaguar hold a torch the fire illuminates kneeling before him wearing an exquisite huipil Lady Xoc pulls a thorn-lined rope through her tongue the rope falls onto a woven basket holding blood soaked strips of paper cloth ~ the sacrificial blood conjures up a visionary manifestation of Yat-balam founding ancestor of the dynasty of Yaxchilan birthing jaws of a snake double-headed rearing above Lady Xoc


she sharpens her sting-ray spine and obsidian lance as Yat-balam precipitates saliva ~ the serpent coils through a beaded bloodscroll and from its mouth an ancestor the blood coagulates ~ lovers stand over a captive noble beaded droplets on his nose and cheek 8 days to the birth of Shield Jaguar the second an heir the celebrations begin ~ miniature cycles within the cycle swirl the sumptuousness of the lady Balam-Ix is stained another of his wives Lady Xoc adorned with ornate earplugs, nosepiece bar pictoral jade cyclinder cuffs her face masked by the feathers of a serpent skull headdress as Bird Jaguar threads the bespined needle through his penis and proclaims his favourite


(sustantivo)

edwin valero – hugo chavez – simon bolivar – wined lerova – ghou vazech – monsi livarbo


(massacre of the innocents) fragment of brutal evening when the roads lead off into the blue, but no one fights; the dust of the fight recalls the dust of the fights where most are bruised and the silence fights at stones, but nothing happens somewhere something no one has fought tumbles from a shelf somewhere a meal is being prepared it becomes fruit itself hydrogen fights exist a plea to die as people used to fight one day in ordinary weather, whether you know you are in a fight or know nothing a day when as usual you have forgotten you are fighting


(flag) a man’s heart is read by the flag tattooed upon his chest


(master of animals, winged human-headed animals)

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sorrid mame memberanaring included bate netflanked cautt rantant ra ha natant snar rantant plora santaa ratt comara mochat snoorunda plough ratora taratta 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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.


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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 head can cause degenerative mental health including acute depression

his sadness is indigenous

those 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 tool in combatting depression used by therapists in the contemporary treatments of depression his gentle land the flat hand fortunate he cut his own hair and had little appetite amidst the money wifekiller can a man drink and punch?

they ask

as a primary physical activity to combat depression he leaves behind two children Hugo Chavez has promised the nation of Venezuela will be their mother and father now


(death of the fire god)

heaven and earth laboured the crimson sea laboured and in the sea the red reed laboured from the reed’s tip smoke rose from the reed’s tip flame rose and in the flame a youth was running he had hair of fire a beard of flame and his eyes were suns

WHAT WE DO KNOW


HE WOULD HAVE RATHER DIED IN THE RING



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