Two Runners

One an athlete since way back when who understands the exact speed of the uniformed self circling the track in the lined pages of the log that preserves his every mile and pulling away stride by spiked stride— the other late to the game, brimful of wonder at what might have been achieved. At the all-comers’ meet, whittled old timers make up the stagger chasing fit, neon young men, just kids, quick and yet to arrive. After, they are hoarse and slow. They jog but soon stand staring at the sheet of seconds and tenths taped to the stadium wall. They are speechless and from the bleachers indistinguishable, each alike in his hunger.The post Two Runners first appeared on The Walrus.