could stomp through the nyc marathon in about 40 minutes flat which makes no sense given what chases it today some say this is because the Pronghorn used to share this land with the now-extinct american cheetah for over two million years others say it’s because they’re still being chased by their ghosts — generations of the doe-eyed chewing on trauma like cud just to trick the stomach and heart to keep pumping and like that with nothing it blows past me 60-plus miles an hour the short-faced bears of the pleistocene are gone now you won’t turn the corner