earth note 12

my bicycle is my picket sign
wheels ranting past smog-stained
parking garages cluttering up the riverfront
green space movement looking for partisans
green guerrilla walkers
joggers runners rollerbladers
wheelchair-rollers skateboarders
rowers kayakers canoeists
bicyclists
of the world unite
we have nothing to lose
but our
cellulite
an intravenous high-octane-sucking
disorder
occupy life

---- e b bortz

(published in Suburban Wasteland #4, 1997)