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BIRD’S WORDS

My bike is an appliance. And on it I have a reliance. I go out on it in defiance, of weather to visit clients. Attached to it? No polluting internal combusted science.

The poetics end there. But my bike is a big part of me. Recently I wrote that I had gone to Switzerland to review my attachment to the work of Paul Klee and a number of astute readers, awake to the climate decline, suggested I could have gone by train.

I stand corrected. No excuse. Planes are arseholes to the environment. And we should not be taking them.

But my bike: no polluting

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