Thoughts while vacuuming.
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Hold it!!
Coach Salazar and I are racing
across the cover of
When Running was Young
and So Were We.
Am I going fast enough for you, Alberto?
Alberto & I, side by side,
friends yet combatants,
obviously in the grip of competition,
and, well,
he beat me.
Am I going fast enough for you, Alberto?
All I ever used
was aspirin crushed into DMSO
and then rubbed into my
lower extremities.
That’s about the worse we did
back in the day.
Still think I could’ve broken 2:30,
well, maybe,
maybe not, probably not,
maybe 2:40… 2:45 for sure,
if only I’d had an Elliptigo,
and a spinbike
and sports gels.
Compression socks.
***
Spent a day with Bruce Jenner
some four decades ago.
Sweet guy.
A real gentleman.
***
My wife cleaned
the vacuum cleaner
’cause I’d never be able to put it back together.
The carpet definitely looks better.