A physical trainer

at my gym once took me

aside & began asking me

a lot of

philosophical questions.

Like,

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“How much could I dead lift?”

***

“I don’t know,” I said.

 “Why don’t you ask me this question again, in Heaven!”

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And then,

in a twinkling of an eye,

I was gone. Never to return.

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Though I would continue

paying monthly gym fees

for another fourteen years.