It begins with a static current of nerves.
A deep breath.
Doubt.
How far can my legs carry me today?
My lungs?
My brain?
Just breathe and stop thinking so much.
Were the Lisbon girls based on real people? Did Jeffrey Eugenides love them?
A few steps and wild electrons of thoughts bound about with no rhyme or reason.
What’s Amanda Bynes up to these days? I hope she’s ok.
The velocity is random.
Find your pace.
Find your breath.
Stop thinking so much.
Did Christopher Tolkien even like interpreting his father’s posthumous voice?
Gulp the air.
Hold it and release it slow.
Which of Judy Garland’s five husbands did she love most, if any?
Throat,
Lungs,
Diaphragm.
Again.
Lift your knees.
Is it possible for anyone to be as effortlessly cool as Sofia Coppola?
Wow, you’re not great at this, are you?
That woman was walking when I started and she just passed me.
Doubt.
Slow and steady.
Set your own pace.
This isn’t a race.
Get out of your head, Bethy.
Mo calls me Bethy. And Mike. Who else?
Summer’s coming up – Ugh, the house.
Three inches of water in the basement that time. I had to wash my sneakers.
You should think more.
You should think less.
Breathe.
Gulp the air
Swallow it slow.
No spotted lantern flies yet.
Breathe.
Lift your knees higher.
Is that jasmine or honeysuckle? Smells like Natalie’s wedding.
Relax your hands.
Do my feet pronate since that injury on the train in 2017?
Focus on the path.
Careful on the sand.
That scar from Bradley Beach is still there after three years. Crazy.
Who are Jack Antonoff’s songs about? Scarlett, Lena, Margaret?
Run.
Push a little further than you think you can.
I likely ruined that friendship. Maybe that was meant to happen.
Relish the breeze
And the sound of the gulls.
I want to stop.
Keep running.
Stop thinking so much.
I can’t stop.
Almost there.
Withstand the toughest part.
Pain in legs.
Pump your heart.
Maybe there’s a muse is these surroundings.
Home stretch.
Slow your steps.
Rush of blood to the head.
I actually did it.
Permit the pride.
Cool down.
Hydrate
Stretch.
Endorphins.
Now wasn’t that worth it?
cozy does it 