Thirteen
Ways of looking at a bicycle
1
Sneaking out the opaque window
On a frosty morning
The bicycle is waiting
To carry her home
2
Crossing the busy highway
A group of bicycles are bonding
While their riders chat in Lycra
3
Riding to work, crispy dawn
Wish I had my boots on
My naked feet are freezing
Resting on bicycle peddles
4
Jump on your bicycle
Ride as fast as you can
If a stranger approaches
Child was
warned
5
Abandoned by the riverbank
A mode of transport
The bicycle becomes the means
By which lovers meet
6
Child is learning quickly
Practice wheels are spinning wildly
The bicycle becomes the teacher
Growing, growing fast
7
It’s like riding a bicycle
You never forget
A measure
of all achievements
8
A man and a woman
A man and a woman and a bicycle
Two lonely lovers
Cycling around their fears,
Their dreams, their hopes
9
Wheels in motion, never stopping
Keep on rolling, rolling, rolling
It’s the way of the bicycle
10
Get on your bike
11
A line of stationary bicycles with spinning wheels
No movement
Trapped indoors
12
Hot, dusty, wheat belt country
Muted colours, suffocating silence
Pretty girl in printed dress
Peddling, peddling fast on her bicycle
13
Oh insecure men of the world
Why do you imagine red Ferraris?
Do you not see how the bicycle
Glistering in the wind, blowing your hair back
Toning your thighs
Is in the dreams of the women around you?
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