workout not working out

use the muscles
one foot then one foot then one foot.
the pulse, the strain, not the pain.
don’t call it pain
call it a tremor or a quake
one foot then one foot then one foot.
something to let us know how earthshaking it is
a natural disaster of the nervous system
the system is down, overloaded.
one foot then one foot then [...]

careful what you wish for.

do you ever wish you could write in blood?
that your pen would overflow and the bright crimson ink would drip drip drip down and stain the floorboards?
that what you have to say could be carved so deeply into someone that no one would ever forget?
that your handwriting would forever scar the face of the planet [...]