Spoke

TAKE ME OUT

Here I am, untouched in the corner of the garage next to a broken deck chair and a dusty hiking pack. I’m only a shadow of my former self; clumps of dry, smelly mud are moulded to my frame, grit and grime stuck in my chain.

Oh, how I yearn for just one more

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