Traffic Life : Passionate Tales and Exit Strategies
Edited by Stephan Wehner
An Anthology
 
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Life In Transito, Ergo Sum Rick Millikan Though I'd rather be cycling to work or better yet in the Loire Valley, the Vancouver Skytrain offers another welcome option to city grid lock. Plus, a scenic perspective is always provided. Riding rhythmic rails can inspire journals of jour- neys and tales. I ride, ergo I think. Lives exist in transit. Today my laptop feels the keystrokes of a heartfelt tirade to rally rage against an auto age. Odious odes are unloaded to erode and explode those auto motives. Hopefully, such a moving opus inspires hope for us. Skytrain Poetry An Aerie View of Smog Demons Beneath us scuttle metallic farting bugs, That blur the eyes and tweak the nose. These puffing putters roll rambunctiously in ass fault rows. Enraged or just engaged in 'so what' shrugs, These drivers strain with sour coffeed mugs. And drive and dive dangerously into denty woes, ­ 132 ­
  
Rick Millikan 133 We ride supreme, above those hooting hordes, We human poets enter Metro, ready to add reason to rhyme, Whilst carsters creep, we are moved by urbane design! It's not clear where my fellow passengers are going, meta- physically or functionally. Before I get off at my stop to see my honey, I speculate. Could fellow passengers be ardent shoppers prepared for mall mayhem? In the spirit of this green express, I hope not. It's more likely all of us are work- ers that may build a better tomorrow. Our first step today was boarding this train. We all could be students studying human progress, reading the writing on the wall, and em- powering a green consciousness with our own life journeys. So what are we? Sky Trainees, Life Cyclers Whatever we are, we're not in a car, Stylishly infatuated, encapsulated, isolated ... Where we are, carries us far .. Moving together in time, space and mindfulness ...

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