Pole Vaulters and Distance Runners...

have to be a bit insane. That's what my high school track coach used to say.

But maybe these are two normal evolutionary skills. I mean, didn't humans require long sticks to vault over wooly mammoths after they chased them twenty-five miles or so.

I'll bet there are no vegan pole vaulters. It's an evolutionary impossibility. Same for ultra-marathoners.

I've never been hungry enough to eat a dog, but it's hardly an absurd notion in another reality. I'm afraid eating my cat would give me a giant hair ball. I'm ill equipped for that.

Here I sit, but
                   in my mind,
I run
               and run
                                and run
      and
run.