Signal
Two long skinny rows of cars one going west, one east push the air, it folds, tires swish. I’m exposed on two wheels, I feel the air. We wait for the light to change your arm hangs out the window and I watch you drop a little piece of something you held, covertly, as if to hide it from the driver or anyone who might be watching as if I were undercover, a bicycle cop, and the fine for littering, suddenly enforced, might be a price too much to pay, but the risk is one you’ll take, carefully. Why should this bit, this small strip of purple nothing flutter to the street instead of to the floor at your feet? What bird will find something other than death by eating it? The purple bit will fade in the sun, be run over again and again. Blow to the curb, be…