Team Jamaica Man

 

While stretching I was looking out of the window.

“O no!”

“Go”, I said to my coach, “let them know, they can’t go down,

like this! 

They’re gonna be fried, total shizz!”

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Park City, Utah 2001; competing in a bobsleigh World Cup, should be fun!

It wasn’t.

I got hit, while makin’ a trip, down the new track, ended up with a painful hip. 

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While prepping for our bobsleigh run;

I noticed the Jamaica Team had done;

their runners on their sleigh;

on the wrong way. 

They were reversed; I cursed. 

‘T would not be the first;

time someone got killed, while on this thrill;

called bobsleighing. 

I ain’t sayin, this to sound cool.

For piloting a bobsleigh you go to a ‘school’. 

It’s not what y’all can just do. 

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The Jamaica Team changed their runners;

after my coach ran down, gave ‘em a frown;

we did not want them looking like some clown.

They looked up; gave me the thumbs up.

After two runs my World Cup came to a stop.

My painful hip, wasn’t ready for another trip.

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All was made up, when we had our end of competition banquet.

We all met;

way high up in the mountains;

got served a fabulous dinner; ate a lot cuz they would not want me to get thinner.

After, we all got drunk; together with the Brits, Jamaicans, Germans and Dutch.

There isn’t much;

the Brits won’t do;

once they’re drinking, joohoo.

They were so much fun, just like the Jamaicans man!

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Even though the sport itself was never my fave;

the fate;

it did create for me to feel free, while traveling and meeting all these new peeps;

was not what was giving me the creeps.

I love exploring and meeting new faces, places and do exchanges;

of our experiences.

When I’m too long at one place;

I crave;

new input.

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Traveling is just another way;

to stay, in the flow of the now.

Somehow; when something is new;

we don’t think of what’s old.

When we travel we literally;

walk inside our own multi-dimensionality.

I get to explore new sides of me;

the in-side projected on the outside physically.

I’m always curious to find out;

how something came about.

Not in a nosy kinda way;

I really don’t care what others do or say.

Gossiping is boring to me;

the opposite of being free.

Hopefully;

I get to travel real soon;

I’d be over the moon!