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Church Creek Trail

Today I got up, made some toast
Went to work, then came home
Fed the cats, recycled all the mail
Thought about the Church Creek Trail

I drive well-worn roads each day
Half-awake, I know the way
Cutting plywood, what does my mind go
To that trail, those years ago?

Why oh why did we decide
To take the trail through the divide?
The shortest route was a broken line
Just 5 more miles, we’d already gone 9

100 side trails, the way to lose
100 foxtails in our shoes
Exasperation, heaving pain
Whose idea was this again?

The Church Creek Trail is unmaintained
And overgrown and with each rain grows
Indistinct and hard to see
And switches back relentlessly
Dry and dusty after May
With Poison Oak all in the way
Crushed under you heavy load
Why didn’t we take the road?
Why didn’t we, why didn’t we?

Nowhere to pause, no place to sit
But dusty culverts full of ticks
We plucked them off and we soldiered on
And prayed for the mercy of the rich Buddhists 3 miles on

We told them how we’d come so far
And they just frowned and took our credit cards
We spent the next year paying for it.

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I think of how we almost died
I shake my head and I swell with pride
Hoisted by our own petard
We tried to take the easy way
And it was hard.

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from How I Quelled the Mutiny, released July 6, 2020

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