Sunday, March 04, 2007

Gymnasium

To be read aloud through gritted teeth, whilst pedalling on a static bicycle.

Gymnasium

This poem has been temporarily removed, for secret reasons.

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  2. Sorry about that - unfortunate typo!

    I meant to say well done and I hope there are enough rhymes to satisfy your harshest critic.

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  3. Anonymous12:11 am

    You have redeemed yourself in the eyes of this American philistine. Bravo!

    An obscene frittering of calories
    and chunks of fattened salaries
    that could be fed to the world’s thin
    or at least spent on beer or other sin.


    That really makes you think. Hmmmmmm, I should be drinking more beer.

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  4. Pretty darn nice poem -- evocative and sensitive.

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  5. Great work. I love the way your gym trip brought to mind the passage of social history. I do not, however, love the guilt I'm feeling at not having visited one for 4 years.

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  6. Thanks to all, and especially M Ali for the practical advice.

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  7. That is so good that it deserves to be written on paper.

    Thanks to synchronicity, it nicely demonstrates a truth of the human condition: no matter how bad things are, they could always be worse.

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  8. Brilliant, funny, evocative.

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