A physical trainer at my gym

once took me aside

& began asking me

a lot of philosophical questions.

Like, ‘How much could I dead lift?’

‘I don’t know, I replied.

 “I guess, we’ll have to continue this conversation —

in Heaven!”

And then, in a twinkling,

I was gone.

Never to return.

II.

Though I would continue

paying monthly gym fees

for another fourteen years.