Tuesday, August 12, 2008

thy neighbor's bike

My neighbor is getting ready to go out on his motorcycle again. He always starts the thing up and lets it loudly percolate for a while before he mounts and rides off. There have been times the bike’s been out there running for twenty minutes before he finally silences it by taking it out of range. It’s one of those noises that gets in your head as just annoyingly noisy. The motor sounds like it’s in my house. I don’t know what kind of bike it is, but I’m betting, just based on the noise, that it’s a Harley. Why does it have to warm up for a decade before he putters off on it? Finally, he’s gone.

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