06-16-2013, 02:17 PM
To be out of shape is to run circles.
When you jog miles after months as couch potato,
breathing = wheezing,
and your body is a Syrian rebellion:
brain's full of furtive tweets hinting reconciliation,
lactic acid is a muscle culling chemical weapon,
feet and toenails threaten sectarian bloodshed.
Meanwhile, each hill is a climb to Mordor
that every passing car laconically scales......
Please God, let me rest and breathe and sweat buckets
and twist my arms to my hips
and thrust my head to the sun
in a slow, Jagger-like strut
towards the cool, shady woods
where I can faceplant the dirt
and inhale it 'til I'm dizzy
and make there a home out of twigs and brush.
When you jog miles after months as couch potato,
breathing = wheezing,
and your body is a Syrian rebellion:
brain's full of furtive tweets hinting reconciliation,
lactic acid is a muscle culling chemical weapon,
feet and toenails threaten sectarian bloodshed.
Meanwhile, each hill is a climb to Mordor
that every passing car laconically scales......
Please God, let me rest and breathe and sweat buckets
and twist my arms to my hips
and thrust my head to the sun
in a slow, Jagger-like strut
towards the cool, shady woods
where I can faceplant the dirt
and inhale it 'til I'm dizzy
and make there a home out of twigs and brush.