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Poem: Things seen while biking on the Lakefront Trail
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a bike towing a dog with its hindquarters on a cart
a totem pole
a line of hand-holding kindergartners being urged by their teacher in French to move quickly across the path
statues of chesspieces
volleyball players ripening like wheat in the sun
a golden retriever running full-tilt to the edge of the lakewall and leaping far out over the water
so many drinking fountains, but never when I want one
a red-winged blackbird blocking my access to its drinking fountain until I'm standing right there
a cellphone-talking hipster's Smart Water bottle and Starbucks coffee cup blocking my access to a drinking fountain until I'm standing right there
a sexy blonde runner next to me at the multi-spigot fountain moaning so loudly between slurps that I have to put it out of my mind and ride away thirsty
Navy Pier
an gray-haired man on a bike who knocks a younger cyclist into some tourists on that crowded bridge over the Chicago River and doesn't stop to apologize
the Field Museum
the Shedd Aquarium
the Adler Planetarium
a flying saucer parked atop Roman ruins, or rather Soldier Field
a guy who looks just like Starburns from "Community," down to the top hat, but with normal sideburns
an Orthodox woman walking with conviction in the 90-degree heat
geese that never flinch no matter how closely I pass them
a beached yacht rocking on the shore, emergency trucks all around
a Chicago Police boat searching the water
a man walking backward up a hill
a hundred feet of the pathway ahead covered in drifted sand
the Museum of Science and Industry
a broken fountain spraying water thirty feet
the turnaround at milepost 18
the same man an hour later, still walking backward
the Chicago skyline like a tiny sapphire city
my wife, her mouth stained orange from an impulsive snow cone
Crossposted from Inhuman Swill
a bike towing a dog with its hindquarters on a cart
a totem pole
a line of hand-holding kindergartners being urged by their teacher in French to move quickly across the path
statues of chesspieces
volleyball players ripening like wheat in the sun
a golden retriever running full-tilt to the edge of the lakewall and leaping far out over the water
so many drinking fountains, but never when I want one
a red-winged blackbird blocking my access to its drinking fountain until I'm standing right there
a cellphone-talking hipster's Smart Water bottle and Starbucks coffee cup blocking my access to a drinking fountain until I'm standing right there
a sexy blonde runner next to me at the multi-spigot fountain moaning so loudly between slurps that I have to put it out of my mind and ride away thirsty
Navy Pier
an gray-haired man on a bike who knocks a younger cyclist into some tourists on that crowded bridge over the Chicago River and doesn't stop to apologize
the Field Museum
the Shedd Aquarium
the Adler Planetarium
a flying saucer parked atop Roman ruins, or rather Soldier Field
a guy who looks just like Starburns from "Community," down to the top hat, but with normal sideburns
an Orthodox woman walking with conviction in the 90-degree heat
geese that never flinch no matter how closely I pass them
a beached yacht rocking on the shore, emergency trucks all around
a Chicago Police boat searching the water
a man walking backward up a hill
a hundred feet of the pathway ahead covered in drifted sand
the Museum of Science and Industry
a broken fountain spraying water thirty feet
the turnaround at milepost 18
the same man an hour later, still walking backward
the Chicago skyline like a tiny sapphire city
my wife, her mouth stained orange from an impulsive snow cone
Crossposted from Inhuman Swill