I Love Riding in the City

NAME: de Vie
LOCATION: Tucson, AZ
OCCUPATION: Musician, poet, & mystic cashier

This is a poem about falling in front of Epic Cafe in Tucson, Arizona. There are trolley tracks on Fourth Avenue that seem to exist almost
solely for the purpose of brutally toppling
urban cyclists. I was initiated that day, and gave thanks at how okay I really was.

smacked

you departed by saying
you would see me anytime.
you held my hand and closed your eyes.

i went for a bike ride
calm & elated.
passed a coffee shop
rang the bell at a friend

found myself
smacked against pavement
watching blood issue from my head.

returned home with broken skin & bike
knew i was all right
remembering the source of my wound
i am filled with gratitude

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Illustration by Casey Droege, www.spokepunchers.com