Grabbing the Handlebars

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Because a bike can go the same way backward and forward.

And, as the video shows, so can the world.

So can people; so often they do.

Where’s the room – the inch in the concrete, the synapse between the neuron – between can and should?

As Jane Hirshfield writes in her poem, “The Decision,” “there is a moment/before a shape hardens,” even a palindromic one. There is room for “the new direction, for other lands.”

*The Flobots are scheduled to play at the Santa Barbara Bowl on May 18. They have a new video for their revised version of “Handlebars,” which can be viewed here.

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