A lifter came back from a long absence, badly frightened,
and so filmed every set, wrote every number down,
slept ten hours, warmed up like someone defusing something.
Two years on, the numbers were past anything from before,
and the lifter still told people
that things had never got back to normal.
Normal, listening from the corner, did not argue.
Normal had been the problem.

The Book of Mending 18:8