Ode to Martial Arts

Joseph Franklin
2 min readNov 18, 2021

Ode to Mixed Martial Arts

Is it odd for a man in a wheelchair to obsess over ultimate fighting?
Probably, but probably just as odd as any tribal tattoo fan.
I’m a big believer in sublimating violence, because I went
to the cornfield high school, I’ve met wrestlers geared different
since birth — half are now competitive in training wrestling,
are the one percent who train talent, or the one percent of that who compete
to be on the UFC top ten. These are men who need a voluntary cage
in my opinion. That kind of physical intelligence needs expressed

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Joseph Franklin

Poet; Quadriplegic; Rust Belt; Zen; Zazen; Pop Culture;