Unplugging from the Narrative(s)

The Meaning of Existence
Everything except language
knows the meaning of existence.
Trees, planets, rivers, time
know nothing else. They express it
moment by moment as the universe.

Even this fool of a body
lives it in part, and would
have full dignity within it
but for the ignorant freedom
of my talking mind.


from
Poems the Size of Photographs, 2002, by Les Murray

To ITB or not to ITB

The world of English literature and running would be a very different place if William Shakespeare had written these- potentially immortal- words:

To ITB, or not ITB, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the legs to suffer
The hamstrings and Achilles of outrageous fortune,
Or to take massages against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep
No more; and by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That runners are heir to? 'Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished.