<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545827" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>At the Gym</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">This salt-stain spot<br>marks the place where men<br>lay down their heads,<br>back to the bench,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and hoist nothing<br>that need be lifted<br>but some burden they've chosen<br>this time: more reps,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">more weight, the upward shove<br>of it leaving, collectively,<br>this sign of where we've been:<br>shroud-stain, negative</div><div style="margin:10px 0">flashed onto the vinyl<br>where we push something<br>unyielding skyward,<br>gaining some power</div><div style="margin:10px 0">at least over flesh,<br>which goads with desire,<br>and terrifies with frailty.<br>Who could say who's</div><div style="margin:10px 0">added his heat to the nimbus<br>of our intent, here where<br>we make ourselves:<br>something difficult</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lifted, pressed or curled,<br>Power over beauty,<br>power over power!<br>Though there's something more</div><div style="margin:10px 0">tender, beneath our vanity,<br>our will to become objects<br>of desire: we sweat the mark<br>of our presence onto the cloth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here is some halo<br>the living made together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Mark+Doty">Mark Doty</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=545827" data-title="At the Gym de Mark Doty" data-description="This salt-stain spot marks the place where men lay down their heads, back to the bench, and hoist nothing that need be lifted but some burden they've chosen this time: more reps, more weight, the upward shove of it leaving, collectively, this si..."></div> </div> </div>

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