Date: 2025-09-17
AO: ao_tar_pit
Q: Da Vinci
PAX: Jayhawk, Panhandle, Banks, DQ, Da Vinci
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
The Robert Bly beatdown
Warmorama to bad cadence
Run the lake and die of death at the amphitheater overlooking the lake where the wild man came from in Iron John.
· Round 1: Burpees
· Round 2: Squat jumps
· Round 3: Merkens
· Round 4: Mountain climbers
· Round 5: Plank jacks
· Round 6: Tuck Jumps
· Round 7: Boxing punches
· Round 9: Freddie Mercuries
· Round 10: American Hammers
· Round 11: Star jumps
· Round 12: Dips
· Round 13: Box Jumps
· Round 14: Skater Jumps
· Round 15: Derkens
· Round 16: Diamond Merkens
· Round 17: Widespread Merkens
· Round 18: Sidestraddle hops
· Round 19: Shoulder taps
· Round 20: Hand release merkens
Moleskin: Bly went from pagan masculinity to the need for a transcendent source to keep the masculine from going off the rails.
Stealing Sugar From the Castle
Robert Bly
We are poor students who stay after school to study joy.
We are like those birds in the India mountains.
I am a widow whose child is her only joy.
The only thing I hold in my ant-like head
Is the builder’s plan of the castle of sugar.
Just to steal one grain of sugar is a joy!
Like a bird, we fly out of darkness into the hall,
Which is lit with singing, then fly out again.
Being shut out of the warm hall is also a joy.
I am a laggard, a loafer, and an idiot. But I love
To read about those who caught one glimpse
Of the Face, and died twenty years later in joy.
I don’t mind your saying I will die soon.
Even in the sound of the word soon, I hear
The word you which begins every sentence of joy.
“You’re a thief!” the judge said. “Let’s see
Your hands!” I showed my callused hands in court.
My sentence was a thousand years of joy.
Tags: ao_tar_pit, Jayhawk, Panhandle, Banks, DQ, Da Vinci
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