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i am biker.
i get more worked up about people who talk on their fucking cellphones while they drive than anything else, and that mostly because they are a menace to folk like me.
the environmental impact of automobiles is a different matter...from time to time i get cranked up about that, but for the most part there seems no particular connection between the choices i make and those others make. what i mean by this is that i do not ride because i think i am maing a heroic contribution to reversing massive environmental damage: i ride because i enjoy riding. in general, i see the american transportation model as a blunder, not so much in itself, but more in terms of its side-effects--it is something that really should be rethought--but that is a political matter and no solution or reinforcement follows from the fact that i ride a bike.
i do, however, particularly enjoy riding critical mass because i like making the cars and their drivers, on their phones and not, wait.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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