A POLAR BEAR SWIM, ANYONE?

 

Ice barely covers the pond,

May we get in training now(?)…

The water is cooler than it was

Do we wait until we yell “OW!”?

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Let’s get in gradually,

And acclimate over time….

When we’re ready for the big plunge

Our bodies will think it less of a crime.

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It’s not that we’re made of blubber,

Ignore that chuckling in back…

We just want to make it over the ice

Without extraneous cracks!

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Let us start with a gradual descent

Into a heated pool…

Then jump in every week or so

Into water increasingly cool.

 

–Jonathan Caswell