Skate or Die

by Daniel C. Boyer; * - Not entered

I have kept with you 
down wobbly days when dormitory walls threatened my   head and knees 
down these vanilla days of my sisteres secret life 
unrealised in exile on the golden isle 
the whoosh of your wheels and the dead scratch of your   stop 
mocking my eye-on-the-horizon adventures (to pluck the   princess from her B-movie high-school-boyfriend) [The   mountain, barrelled-down, 
long ashphalt streams, volcano-like, leading to the swelling   musics 
of our cinematic triumphs, shadows our presence 
here, down below, in our graffiti tubes, and musty   intermittent pools, 
the provence from whence we curse against the power 
Warm as over a fracture, your elegant hand, 
translucent to the touch, as those days fallen so far from   the tree 
of half-pipes, those days when the fog of blood 
in front of our mouths our parents aroused, a swamp of     cops dogging our fierce sport, 
which never dawned for me, though I swore vengenace to   the author of 
the bullet which slipped into my brotheres brain, 
your hand leads me to forget that moment when my prayer 
  evaporated without reaching the half-shell 
You arouse in me not fires but splendour aerial and not so   aerial 
weaving, the daredevils book along the earth 
the wind plays like a puppy in their clothes 
WOBBLE                         WOBBLE                     WOBBLE 
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Date created: 1998-03-19 11:59:50
Last updated: 2021-03-03 14:40:05
Poem ID: 49079

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