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When I took you home from gym class
You were quiet the whole way
Was it the sprained ankle
Or the humiliation
You wouldn't say

And it brings me back
To the milk white thighs of thirty guys
Under school shorts
Playing some absurd sports

And a towering rope
My dashed hopes
And burnt hands
It was a hard landing on the mat

A couple weeks spent on crutches
Isn't much it's just growing up a klutz

And when Dad took me home from gym class
I didn't have much to say either
We're the runts of the litter
We couldn't be thinner
Got a weak handshake and a stammer
Can't wait for the summer
Gonna read away my days in the shade

And when I took you home from gym class
Felt sorry about your genes
Those hand-me-downs
Have been around
Since your great grandpa fell from the trapeze

A couple weeks spent on crutches
Isn't much it's just growing up a klutz
Foul-out wizard, butter fingers
Lost your retainer eatin' dirt
Nice one Perry

Call on your science fiction gods
Heinlein and Aasimov
Send a ship to take you away
Where the gym is non-compulsory
It's university
Two more years and you're free

For now we take what we've been given
It's a given we're not winning
And we won't make the Olympics
Your sympathy is not needed
Because on the other
Side of the bleachers
Feet from your sneakers
Up with the creatures

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from Seedpod​/​Gym Class, released January 1, 2015

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