skateboards & retirement

for jonathan hayes

i was asked at work how long i've been there doing this work

long enough to get near retirement

& when you retire will you & the missus [yep, he said missus] buy a RV & travel this fair land

i've traveled a bit already besides we live in the greatest [arguably] state in the country everything is here

then you can travel these californian roads

i have many many times 

then what will you do

i think i will get me a skateboard

then what

learn to ride it again or maybe hang it on the wall as art

for i can never skate like i did when i was a lad but i can imagine the streets rolling beneath my wheels as it once felt like being born again or maybe on second thought perhaps i'll skate like the devil-in-me go for broke at length upside & sideways full bore wu wei a livable death at last