earth you could be a skateboard

earth you could be a skateboard
and we’ll grind you
down a rail
over and
over slamming
ourselves
in the
nuts
scraping your
art right off
the bottom in
delicious
grooves
proving our chops
over and over
in one long descent
down this fortunate mountain
Celestia
from layer to layer
all potential wiped
in a glossy
teen cream
kickflip
kickflip
kickflip
from rail to rail

enjoy a book
sip some tea
layer dripping
chipping
earth you could be a skateboard
and i’m screaming
in delight
in my
sleep
snoring
amongst the
bed bugs
the mortgage failures
and the dreams
the kickflip dreams
preening my fashion
sense without
pads let’s
grind the truck
for a while
and now the rail
again
kickflip
kickflip
kickflip

maybe we fall off and our
faces splatter on the
stairs and our board rolls
away from us

or maybe we get to the bottom
of the rail and soar off a cliff
our board falls away from us
and we hurdle into the ether.

it’s all breaking.

we could be putting you on a wall to look at.
we could be carving gently.
we could be kickflipping.
we could be riding the rails.

we’ve covered you with grip tape,
now what?
m.