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I sat down to write you a poem ’bout fitness;

’Bout murdering victims without any witness;

’Bout barbells, and skip ropes, and good things for killing

With violence and grimness and every scene chilling.

I thought about weights coming down with a crash

For reasons like jealousy, revenge and cash.

I thought about drugs that induced heart attacks

In people on treadmills pushed up to the max.

I thought about diving and some broken necks.

I thought about poisons and causing car wrecks.

I thought about joggers who fell over cliffs,

And how muscle builders look better as stiffs.

So I sat in my chair and I thought quite a bit

About how many people would die to be fit.

My muscle was hurting; I pushed much too deep.

Never wrote you that poem—my brain fell asleep.

JOY HEWITT MANN has been published coast to coast. In 2001, she placed first in poetry from the Cambridge Writers Collective. In 2000, she was the winner of the Acorn-Rukheyser Award for her chapbook Grass. Her first short story collection, Clinging to Water, was published in 2000, and her first full-length poetry collection, Bone on Bone, is scheduled for publication in 2003. She also has a novel, Lacrima Christi, coming out in 2002.