F$#! Gym Memberships

It really is

Amazing to me 

The number of people

Who have 


Boardwalks galore

At their front doorsteps

And access to the great outdoors

Just off their back porch

And jungle gyms

Playgrounds for adult health and heart

With unlimited monkey bars

Around the nearest street corner 

And oceans and rivers

Nearly as far as the eye can see 


All by the way

For free

And yet

Settle for exclusive memberships

At air conditioned gyms 

With 50 different treadmills

Aimed at metre wide television screens 

Headed nowhere

Instead of pastures of green

And forests full of verdant trees 


Perhaps however 

I am the crazy misunderstood one 


The one out

Running and jumping into the world 


Right here

In front of me

Barefoot and nearly

Naked…

Don’t even get me started

On shoes…


- Fuck Gym Memberships