Two ways of riding BI-cycles or reasons and ways for doing so….an argument for holding hands ((Bien tomados de la mano!): Se donner la main!

In Antwerp, Belgium
While riding bikes next to one another
We hold hands
To steady us
Through today’s
Rain. And
Not just lovers
Do so. But old and young
Friends, and even strangers
Hold hands while riding their bikes
Two by two
Into and through
We lose ourselves in
Today’s rains.

One would never see this
In America, where we ride alone
And pick the toughest terrain
To climb. We wind our way up-name
By name,
Getting there first, before the others-Per aspera ad astra
Up the sheer misted twisted silent Rocky Mountain.
And when we get to the top
It is raining, and we
Are all alone
Having won
Today.