In the ring of recycled thunder ... for Hulk Hogan by Stefano Donno

 In the ring of recycled thunder,

where spotlights carve heroes from sweat and steel,

Hulk Hogan rises, a colossus of bandanaed myth—

twenty-four-inch pythons coiled like forgotten rivers,

flexing against the tide of scripted falls.

Brother, he booms, voice a seismic wave

rippling through arenas turned echo chambers,

Hulkamania a fever dream in neon yellow,

vitamins swallowed whole with prayers

that taste like iron and ambition.

He tore shirts like pages from America's playbook,

patriot in red-white-and-blueshifted glory,

body a billboard for the unbreakable,

slamming giants into canvas confessions—

Iron Sheik, Andre, the endless parade

of heels crumbling under his atomic drop.

Yet in the quiet after the bell,

his frame a map of scars and spotlit scars,

a man who wrestled the world into spectacle,

turning grapples into gospel,

fame's grip loosening like a botched pin.

Now, in the hush of 2026's hindsight,

his legacy lingers like a crowd's roar

fading into static—immortal, imperfect,

a free-verse titan in a verse-free ring,

where every suplex whispers: What'cha gonna do?

Echoes of the Hulkster, brother,

pulsing through the veins of pop's underbelly,

a hybrid hymn of muscle and memory,

accessible as a high-five, innovative as the fall