I'm glad this sort of lateral-thinking-esque thing can still make it to the front page. I don't write poetry, but this seems serendipitously related to other things I've been thinking about.

I've been getting into lifting weights a lot over the last year, and something I read recently changed the way I've started performing the exercises. I've started focusing more on the movements I'm doing, resisting the lazy desire to just go through the motions. It seems to me to be a kind of "avoiding the abstraction," instead lasering in on what's actually going on with my body. It has the tendency to bring out an ecstatic state as well, which is a nice bonus. It feels like a much deeper relationship with the thing I'm doing.