Bike-a-Thon Chicago

Will this Cure Cancer?
by Pat Darnell

The wind sand blasting
our eye-lids
nose hairs littered
with dust

The return trip
is a walk up a hill
compared to this
tail-wind breezed beginning.

Figure ten thousand bikers
loosed upon, packed on, a
ten mile downtown course
... Chicago ...

I pulled out into a Y intersection
and cut off a female cyclist
She yelled 'Jeeeesus Khrist LADY!'
... Chicago ...



Patrick Darnell (15 May 1983)