The bike trail is special <br />because it does not follow the road <br />It follows the creek <br />I ride over wooden bridges, <br />through fields of flowering weeds <br />under canopies of sycamore and poplar <br />and catch glimpses of Hispanics <br />at their pick-up soccer games <br />the church barbeques <br />the kids on their <br />rock-to-rock creek investigations <br />I don’t mean to be a chauvinist <br />about the outdoors, but <br />remind me again why <br />you prefer your stationary bike and CNN<br /><br />Michael Philips<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-outside/
