Name: The Gym
Duration: P00H01M28S
Description: A poem about gym workouts and the psychology involved.

The Gym

from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems by Michael Botur

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A poem about gym workouts and the psychology involved.

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The Gym

Height of titans, heaven-hewn, Roman columns,
beams for arms, wider side than tall, volcanic trapezoids. quads wide enough to eat your dinner off.
We're pumped as beachballs, biceps like kamokamo,
calves wide as doormats, shoulders steel basketballs
Fingers fat glue sticks. No necks.
Finished the sesh, our weights are lugged across the rubber floor, back in the racks and after a last flex of the pecs
with our doppelganger in the mirror
we selfie, sauna, upload to Insta, towel and powder,
prick our gluteus max, Sssh, it’s just a little snack.

Next, after a calorie count, we
shouldercharge reception’s endomorphs
promise to return tomorrow at 4,
intimidate the sliding doors.
Then biff Big Macs, Whoppers, Baconators, Anguses, squashed flat as discuses & tossed into our starved abysses
nibble chips, wash ’em into the drain with protein shakes,
gasp and blaaarp and, as if there lives a pet pup in the gut, pat our happy abs,
and then head back and lug a couple 35ers off the rack
cause in the mirror there’s a dwarf with dysmorphia.
Can’t face ’im if he’s fat.

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from Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems, released March 7, 2021
Michael Botur

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Michael Botur Whangarei, New Zealand

Michael Botur is a New Zealand poet and fiction writer of European heritage. He is author of ten books and has won a bunch of bigshot writing awards.
'Loudmouth: Page and Pub Poems' collects 15 years of spoken word verse from one of NZ's most dynamic young poets. Perfect for anyone who loves the personal mixed w the political, a little bit of hip hop and plenty of attitude.
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