curriculum vitae

I ran long before I walked

And that got me back aches

And medals I had no spine to carry.

They told me they could barely see my face behind those wings

I told them they weren’t real;

Yet they were if I said so.

I had a “to do” list:

Wake up, change the world, have a sandwich, die(?)

And I absolutely hated sandwiches

My childhood friend, fate,

Got offended when I misspelled it as “faith”,

So it ran away. Hilarious, since we both had asthma and the lung capacity of a dying crone

Now, do I pray for maps and compasses or good wind and calm surfs?

I moved in a land of seas and canals before I could swim

Yet I had three golden medals in drowning.

None of them shiny enough for me to see my reflection

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