Best Treadmills Poems

What it is..
What was 
Meant to
Be said
Came all
To fast
From strangers
Pass 
Where did 
You go
Where it 
Went
Let's chase 
Obscene scenes
We must flee
Oh to hell 
With them...

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I used to like barbells, enjoyed pumping iron,
   my Nautilus* gym was one happy environ.
Those posters of 6-packs and marbled biceps
  ...

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walking in I see I'm not the only one thinking,
    1,2,3,4, every rep every set the body pumping,
    ...

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Commingled human sweat permeates the atmosphere.
Grunts and clanging iron greet the ear.
Leotard clad women, without body fat, spring.
Pumped up upper bodies of tattooed men expand.

The...

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Candy placed her towel on one of the many shelves that separated the weight-lifting area of the gym from that of the stationary bikes and...

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There is an hour 
which interferes with work - 
"our hour". 
We use it, or are used by it, 
to bound round supermarket chains 
or...

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Most of my classes suck (by that I mean they’re difficult). English is ok - especially the writing. I’d never want to major in English...

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she came to me in tears
penetrated
by molesting looks and
stairs

her breath misted
the mirror 
she obsessed over

weight was always felt
upon her heavy hardened brow
 
she stretched her...

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Cardio-Rehab is an exceptionally good thing to do
I keep up with machines better than walking with you
With the newfangled treadmills I can see the world
While...

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It's the resolution graveyard
for those good intentions, cursed,
opening hours from New year's day
to February first.
Here's a pile of treadmills,
dumbbells stacked up near the gate,
abandoned by...

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There is only love
when we leave the other
behind – our world of others:

Commitments deemed by 
self so paramount,
we become perpetually
addicted to treadmills; 

inducted wrong-tracks
adhering as...

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(a story in Senryus)

I can’t figure out
why everything doesn’t
happen like I want.

I brush my teeth and
floss regularly, I wash
my roommates dishes,

I am generous,
I don’t run...

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Some days, it's best to keep still!
One needs to get some rest.
And abuse of your time might make
you quite ill.
Get off-line, enjoy your time on...

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Anyone up at three in the morning,
While most humans in our world are at rest?

Poets on their penned treadmills run,
Creating beauty, having scintillating 
aromatic coffees and...

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Living at maximum RPM,
the world outside surrounds me
Setting traps and digging holes
to slow my motion down

I bob and weave, increasing speed,
the pitfalls deep and mighty
Hunted...

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