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Tommy Burns is
the guy who he won

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the heavyweight
championship from,

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and this poem is
about this fight,

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and it's called A
Great Maltese Cat

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Toying With a White Mouse, which
is how a reporter described

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this fight.

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It's broken into two
separate sonnets.

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The first one--

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What I told the reporter--

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I have no doubt about the
outcome after the first round,

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the only surprise was how long
Tommy Burns stayed on his feet.

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He was a game man and showed no
inclination whatsoever to quit.

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My fists were better
in every round

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and I landed punches I
thought would bring him down,

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but like a great pachyderm,
he refused to stop.

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And because he
was so game, I was

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glad the police ended the fight.

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I wanted to be
heavyweight champion,

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not injure Burns seriously.

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What I really meant--

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That man made me
chase him from Texas

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to England, all the
way to Australia,

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before he would fight me.

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Four flusher, he
didn't win the title,

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he just happened to be white
and in the right place,

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like somebody striking gold.

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I put him down, but
gently, in the first round

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so you'd know what
was to come after he

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got his knee off the canvas.

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Once he collected himself,
I bruised him with my right

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and talked to him
all the while--

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walk right into them, Tommy,
straight left to the hook.

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That's a boy, Tommy,
straight right to the cheek.

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Take your medicine nicely.

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