bike versus car

and bike lost.

five hours, and maybe 12 (can't count the internal ones) stitches later, hiya. nice big hole sealed up above my heart. hospital stories, ruminations, there is plenty to write bout this, but i am totally exhausted right now. no major organs fucked - sore muscles, torn skin ( my chest went INTO the corner of a car door), a better sense of what contemporary emergency care is... that kind of thing. i hope the woman who was shouting "its a conspiracy" is feeling better now. and i met kuan yin. but its san francisco, so he's this young guy who looked a little like talib kweli.

it will take a while to process having seen my very own (and very dear) "marbled fat". its actually kind of fun to write about this, but, LAT-R.

until then, know i am healing, my neck is super stiff, and the IVs they stick in your arms are plastic! who knew...

and share your sympathy. tanya brolaski, in berkeley, nearly got her finger cut off. its a rough week for bay area poets. shit be going down.

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"Traffic accidents kill an average of 728 cyclists each year, injuring 45,000 more. Cyclist's account for 13 percent of all non-motorist traffic, 2 percent of all traffic fatalities, and 1 percent of all traffic injuries. Roughly 40 percent of all bicycle fatalities occur in the states of California, Florida, New York and Texas." - RIP, dead cycle homies. KMalone, know I was thinking of you. Sorry I always stuck my tongue out at you in the end. What to say? Hope you made it past the confusion...