Alden Nowlan / The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

September 26, 2026

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a short ironic modern poem by Alden Nowlan. This poem is simply an experience of the feelings a poet had while writing it. The feelings that the...

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