rollerskating is deceptively harder than hopscotch, but much more rewarding.
People watch you skate by,
skating is so respectable,
innocent
especially when done in jeans and pigtails.

you should come skate with me one day
we'll hold hands
then you will feel what i feel,
the pavement on steven lane like butter,
the pavement on burbury like sweat and ants in your feet,
the pavement on the driveway sticky so we fall and laugh.

roll roll roll it's all the same.
later that night we can draw hopscotch on the driveway,
we can dance to disco,
we can lie on our backs and count the stars.