Michael Rerick creative writing graduate student

Grad student thinks bike paths are 'nice,' suffers from bike road rage but its okay, he's a poetry guy

Wildcat: So, my name's Nathan and you're On the Roll, which is a division of On the Spot Inc.

[Rerick rides his bike into the bike racks]

Wildcat: Are you sure you don't want to ride your bike·like start trouble somewhere?

Rerick: Start trouble?

Wildcat: Yeah. Me and you. Together.

Rerick: I'm kind of doing something right now, but·

Wildcat: We can find like a big "No riding bikes" sign and ride in circles around it until someone comes.

Rerick: It's sort of nice there are actually bike paths here, I think.

Wildcat: There's a lot of pedestrians in the bike paths.

Rerick: Yeah, but it's sort of fun to get mad at them.

Wildcat: Have you ever had any kind of bike rage? · bike road rage?

Rerick: Sure. All the time. I yell at people a lot.

Wildcat: You serious? Some people just get a bell.

Rerick: I know. I'm too cheap, so·

Wildcat: Oh. I feel you there.

[Rerick lights up]

Wildcat: You're smoking. Don't you know that's bad for your health?

Rerick: [nodding] Um-hmm. So I don't understand. Are you doing this for the Wildcat or for your own·

Wildcat: Own what?·Nah, this is for the Wildcat. True to life. Honest.

Rerick: It doesn't matter to me. I'm just curious. There's going to be a poetry reading if you want to spend your time that way.

Wildcat: Is that where you're going?

Rerick: That's what I'm in school for.

Wildcat: Like, say something poetic right now.

Rerick: Uh, something poetic? How about "iambic pentameter?"

Wildcat: Oh·see if you can remember who this is from. "Day after day, day after day/we stuck, nor breath nor motion/as idle as a painted ship/upon a painted ocean."

Rerick: · I don't know.

Wildcat: Coleridge.