Hurt Me
How the hell can I
Make my teammates better
By practicing?
They should be used to
Playing with
Me.
Those are my teammates.
So?
My game is going to deteriorate
Because I’m not
Practicing
With my teammates?
Is my game
Going to get worse?
Is my game
Going to get better?
Because other players are hurt on my team.
I mean:
Do that hurt me?
Do you think that hurts me?
I’m being honest.
People are hurt
On my team,
But
Do that hurt me?
Does that hurt me when:
I go out there and play
48 minutes?
Does that hurt me as a player?
Does that hurt me
If this person is hurt
Or that person is hurt?
Do it hurt me?
Taken from a transcript of a post-game press conference with Allen Iverson at http://genius.com/4981112
But Brother
I don’t have to say a whole lot more
About the way I feel
About Ric Flair.
No respect. No honor.
There is no honor amongst thieves in the first place.
He put
Hard times
On Dusty Rhodes
And his family.
You don’t know what
Hard times
Are, daddy.
Hard times:
Are when the textile workers
Around this country
Are out of work,
They got 4 or 5 kids
And
Can’t pay their wages
Can’t buy their food.
Hard times:
Are when the auto workers
Are out of work
And they tell ‘em,
Go home.
And:
Hard times
Are when a man
Has worked at a job
For thirty years
Thirty years
And they give him a watch,
Kick him in the butt and say, “Hey
A computer took your place, daddy.”
That’s hard times.
That’s. Hard. Times.
And Ric Flair,
You put hard times on
This country
By takin’ Dusty Rhodes out.
That’s hard times.
And we all had hard times
Together
And I admit,
I don’t look
Like the athlete of the day
Is supposed to look.
My belly’s just a lil’ big,
My heiny’s a lil’ big,
But brother:
I am bad.
And they know I’m bad.
Taken from a transcript of Dusty Rhodes “Hard Times” promo at
Brian Burmeister is Program Chair of English and Communication at Ashford University. His writing has appeared in Cleaver Magazine, The Furious Gazelle, and Yellow Chair Review. He can be followed on Twitter @bdburmeister.
