Long Workouts Poems

I spent my senior year saying I was full 
when all I did was discreetly place food
in the napkin on my lap
A bowl of corn, every other week feed my body
A friend asked me once...

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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
   inspired me to start counting carbs, pounds, and reps.

My trainer...

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Lisa was carefully pulling a strand of cotton candy off a paper-coned “barbe à papa” - winding it around her finger while absentmindedly gazing at a carousel. She seemed hypnotized by its white horses, trimmed...

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When rollerblading I threw out my back. 
A sidewalk bump sent me off the track. 
On the way home I had felt out of whack. 
Did extra stretches to create motion slack. 

But the lumbar...

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after having cut off
everyone s/he loved or
having them made that decision
for him/her,
s/he was alone in 
training for months,
with a minimal diet
reducing
reducing
reducing,
with the workouts from twice a
day to a full time, 24/7,
mental & physical
pure dedication,
where all...

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THE GAME REQUIRES DETERMINATION.
ALONG WITH LUCK AND SKILL.
YOU PROVE YOURSELF OVER TIME
THAT YOU CAN FULFILL THE BILL.

YOU SAID YOU WANTED 
TO PLAY THE GAME.
AND CLAIMED YOU HAD A
REASON.
YOU VOWED TO DO YOUR
VERY BEST.
THROUGH OUT THE...

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Love's Symphonic Passion
                                by...

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It was 29° (f) degrees this morning with a waning gibbous (¾) moon. Still, as we started our run, it was dark enough that the world was rendered in black and white. Lisa was a...

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( after Sachida's after the war)

There will be war, in fact, there have always been wars,
and will continue.
Wars satisfy us.
Our nasty muscles move in festive workouts,
when there is war; in hearts, minds and on tongues.
We...

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Here we all are
In this modern day apocalypse.
Social distancing, stay at home....
Virtual friends, virtual workouts,
Virtual jobs, virtual schools.
What would we do without the internet?

Borders are closed, travel bans in effect. 
Concerts are cancelled, sports events...

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I am slid into the core of the big white tube.
It will reveal all my moving parts
all the flagging and wheezing organics
that reside in the same apartment block,
share the same airducts and plumbing,
but otherwise hang...

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Argentina's son, a lineage to immigrants
shaped by boyhood aspirations 
diminutive left foot striker
taunted "dwarf" in childhood 
his growth hormone deficiency 
              ...

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I'm a witness,...you're an audience,
Yes,...Christ and the church,
Abide to list of ineptness, 
Meet a criteria of creche,
A lioness gifted with new furs from gold, 
Love in their abode,
Attractive and benevolent flower in the botany of...

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I'm a witness,...you're an audience,
Yes,...Christ and the church,
Abide to list of ineptness, 
Meet a criteria of creche,
A lioness gifted with new furs from gold, 
Love in their abode,
Attractive and benevolent flower in the botany of...

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How much is an idea worth - 
enough to make you poor?
What if you found the ultimate
that shook you to your core?

Suppose it took a thing you hate
like struggling with planks,
and sneakily turned it to...

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Grappling with parenthood over the years. 
Battling and facing my responsibility fears. 
Celebrations and failures leading to tears. 
Many moving parts like out of sync gears. 

But the universe said that we get a take...

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I want to tell you about some people
  who showed me something I did not know.
  It's about the nature of affliction
  and the depths of healing to one must go.

 ...

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An ordinary rectangular wooden mirrored lid, paint-chipped and worn,
sits in my bathroom, the mirrored part having gotten spotted over time.
I often hold it up in front of me, faced away from the bathroom mirror
to check...

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I like to exercise my mind, but how I hate to work.
Whatever needs exertion is the action that I shirk.
Labor with the brain is fine.  I do it all the time.
How I love to...

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finesse a finish to
finely embellish fast wishes
friends flying with the fishes
frying fish in the flying kitchen
his rhymes were vicious
and yet silly and suspicious
glued together with
questionable superstitions
strange transmissions
how do I possess this person's vision

wordplay workouts
stretch out...

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Natural is the new synthetic 
Its all hoax of aesthetic 
Clear skin is the new frenzy 
The pressure is too profound , you see!
Five to ten bottles consumed of lake 
Might as well call it...

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I once knew a poet named Cecile
Call her skinny and hear her spiel
   I'm petite with small bones
  I have fat and rolls she groans
If I called you names how'd you feel...

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The one who is fit,
Is the one who will
Reach the summit
So stay safe, stay fit.

This pandemic is like a war
Nobody knows how long it will last
It is like an evil spell a witch has cast...

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Bigger than life, though petite in the flesh,
An outlet where coolness and intellect mesh,
A mind where ideas and decisions are fresh,
She’s as hip as a justice can be.

At 85 years, she’s still sharp as a...

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The neighborhood gyms
Have huge windows so we
Can observe all the workouts
And want what we see.

We’re supposed to feel guilty
We’re not in there, too
So our abs and our pecs
Could be proudly on view.

But as I pass...

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