Living Daylights

Saint Paul, 24 August 2010

Sugar delivered a punch with his left hand to Olson's right jaw

that must have made him see stars as he sagged to the canvas

like a bag of cement.

~ Edan Mae Robinson on the 1956 boxing match

between Sugar Ray Robinson & Carl Bobo Olson

Mushy Callahan

laid the ten count

in the second round.

Little did Bobo know

his shift was over when

Sugar Ray punched his clock.

But Sugar remembered

to hit the lights

on his way out.