(September 2, 1939 – September 7, 2005)

Punch a ghost
And you fall through an abyss.
Jab repeatedly at a shadow
And you beat your own brains
Against nothingness.
Throw your hardest left and miss
Stumbling through your momentum
Like a puppet come unstrung
To miss again with your right
Until it seems
You’re in a self-defeating fight.
That was the genius of Nicolino Locche,
“The untouchable one.”
He fought by not fighting
And even losing, he won.