Marathon - Vic Chesnutt

To-do lists on a long yellow legal pad

Blue Windsor knot framed by basic black

Resplendent table

Great forests of paper plates

Carrying the weight of the world

Saps every ounce of your strength

In training to run a marathon

Miles and miles and miles

With your Sunday shoes on

In training to run a marathon

Miles and miles and miles

With your dress shoes on

But all these recurring dreams

Will increase and then peter out and cease

Tears do evaporate

But oh so slowly

Like piss on a toilet seat

In training to run a marathon

Miles and miles and miles

With your Sunday shoes on

In training to run a marathon

Miles and miles and miles

With your dress shoes on