Title: Fatigue

Author: Maria McMillan

In: Sport 41: 2013

Publication details: Fergus Barrowman, 2014, Wellington

Part of: Sport

Keywords: Verse Literature

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Fatigue

I have to figure out fatigue.
I climb all day and spin and hold
my body in only the most treacherous

positions until I want to weep
with tiredness. I need warm food.
So now I climb. And when I can

do it no more I climb more. And some
thing stops me climbing and I override
the thing to climb again. Knowing

my body, its mass, when and how
muscles fail, the mechanics of it.
And the thing stops me and

I climb through the thing and
no matter how I try I can not climb until
I fall, over and over I try, thinking

I know what a body can do
and it can not do this.