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JUST FOR THE JOY OF RUNNING

You saw me exercize an anger
You thought you’d said goodbye
Good luck to, now I’m filling
Midriff notebook sweatpants
Midnight crewcut deathwish bombast
With a wedding ring on,
Ed Harris in the abyss with a
Wedding ring on, in a hot tub
With an Aerosmith song on
Just for the joy of running
The power on the fountain pen –
That to me is driving the straightaways
However I feel like it and whatever
On the radio, fishing lures holding
My hat together like a husband
With a wedding ring on,
And memories of rural routes running
Like a festival at a revival house
As if we lived our lives to make
Memory compound. Time.