I Am Complimenting You

When I say a kind word it means that, of all the people in the world, I’ve chosen you: you’ve a wonderful bearing, you carry yourself as only you could. There is an arching of the back that occurs during the overhead press—it is an architectural moment where, for an instant and always moving, the body is a monument, and up up up the bar elevates skyward away from that stolid wonder left shaking in…