There should be a place you could walk to<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re young.<\/p>\n
A place with hills, gauntlets for the bike with one speed (as fast as your legs can move it)
\nand one brake (better hope the wires don\u2019t snap).<\/p>\n
Hills that are narrow and paved from a time when gas was cheaper,<\/p>\n
and are cracked and split by roots older than the lake on the next block<\/p>\n
that was filled with buckets of some local government (can you swim to the dock?)<\/p>\n
I learned to sail on that lake. I learned confidence on that lake.<\/p>\n
But on those hills\u2026<\/p>\n
Easing off the brakes\u2026<\/p>\n
On those hills, I was Achilles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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