#thrasher
Skateboard culture
To grow up surrounded by it
living it in scabby knees and blown out shoes
sweaty , dehydrated
Adrenaline addled and longing for the next fix
Gravity failing
tempted into coalescing
brilliant redundancy of failure
the rush of success
landing
rolling away
the spine rattled
the courage
the grit
to get up and do it again
May 5
May 5, 2026 at 6:16 PM UTC
Sometimes I think
not often, but enough
that if I had a shrink
(s)he would say
Neil Young is the one
that ****** you up
son, I mean, he didn’t
mean to, but
looking back like I am
apt to do too often
his music I have listened
to through the decades
made me who I am
today and yesterday
taking me so many places
where the pavement
turns to sand, like
on the beach, or down
by the river, or somewhere
on a desert highway
where I tend to see the sky
about to rain most days
and the ambiance of
ambulance blues
is so ******* beautifully
depressing that even
I can diagnose me
just knowing that rust
never sleeps, and a heart
of gold remains elusive.
;)
Dec 27, 2019
Dec 27, 2019 at 5:06 AM UTC