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Personal Best

Ian Mullins

If nothing
is worth doing,
why am I doing this?
For the hell of it,
perhaps:
punching myself
hard in the face
to know
I’m still alive,
still suffering.
Still apart
of the human race;

even if I’m only
the man at the finish
with the stopwatch
in his hand,

telling the winners
they’re too damn slow.

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