A Poem About Giving Your All: Leave It There
Runner Alexi Pappas pens her account of leaving it all at the finish line.
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I have a bad habit
of keeping things
far longer
than I should—
old receipts, birthday cards
from my orthodontist,
paper pads from hotels for
my nonexistent office.
But I know
there is a time
at the end of the race,
before the finishing tape
when everything
must go—
I promise.
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