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The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

730: Borderland Apocrypha

The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily

American Public Media

Arts, Performing Arts

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Today’s poem is Borderland Apocrypha by Anthony Cody. Today’s episode features guest host Nate Marshall.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Nate Marshall and this is The Slowdown.

0:18.9

One of the only forms of exercise that I love, I mean really love, is riding a bicycle.

0:26.6

As a child, I loved riding on my training wheels, but took two tries, six months apart

0:32.4

to muster the courage for two wheels.

0:35.5

By middle school, my friends and I would ride miles across our far south side neighborhoods,

0:41.8

adventuring and misadventuring with our mountain bikes ridden in the mostly flat midwestern

0:47.2

city.

0:49.1

In one graduate school summer, I rediscovered my love of riding and bought a bike using

0:55.4

a friend's employee discounted sports authority.

0:59.4

After that, it was not uncommon for me to ride the 20 plus miles from my mother's house

1:05.3

to where I was working across town, just for fun.

1:10.4

The thing I think I love about bike riding is the meditative nature of it.

1:16.0

It's repetitive, but not so much that you can zone out completely.

1:21.8

You can really see a place at a pace that your mind can process, which is not always

1:27.3

the case in cars.

1:29.5

It feels strenuous, but usually not so much that you must succumb to the discomfort,

1:36.4

but the pain is lovely information.

1:39.3

You are alive.

1:40.9

You are alive.

1:42.7

You are present and you have muscles and limbs that work and tire and recover.

1:50.7

Days palm similarly delights in the fact of our existence, even where it is strenuous,

1:58.7

even where it is painful.

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