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Risky Road or (Don't Pave it Safe)

from The Navy Blue Submarine by Tepper Saffren

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This road is getting longer and the street signs getting harder to read. Night time's pretty tricky when your head light is a 5 watt LED.
I need to oil my gears because they're getting kind of sticky and I'm skippin' every third word my muddied mind is thinking.
So should I pull over? Or ride this road until I fall?

I'll just soar on rigid rubber 'till my tires start to mellow out. Deflate the air knocked out my lungs as my wheels hit the burrs and thicket.
The whistling whine joins the chorus of crickets (making me feel sick). It's all their whispers melt me closer to the ground.
So should I pull over? Or ride this road until I fall?

I don't wanna use my pump to inflate my sense of ego. Although, I know seductive air is quite the quick fix for flat-lined care.
Aviatrix, uplift me to where the land looks like colored boxes to be alphabetized and organized. Then drop me. I need sorting out. I need some structured, destructive sorting out. I need to be sorted out.

Helmet on my head, defend this enemy's invasion persuading brainwaves to my limbic cortex. It's my right to fight of flight, though you'll never see me hide. The battlefield is where I'll head instead. I'm on my way. I'll be back when this road is paved.

Peelin' tape on my handles can't handle all these handholds — too romantic for a boy and his bike.
Platonic pedals trap ten, tired toes all lined in rows. Military men awaiting their command.

Why should I pull over? These scratches make me so much more than I was before.

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from The Navy Blue Submarine, released April 4, 2015

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