Larry Narron
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Larry Narron's poems have appeared in Phoebe, Bayou, Hobart, Booth, The Pinch, Slice, The Boiler, and Berkeley Poetry Review, among others. They've been nominated for the Best of the Net and Best New Poets. Larry's first chapbook, Wasted Afterlives, was published in 2020 by Main Street Rag. Instagram: narronapproved
Wood Pushers
Chased through the Nineties
by slobbering rent-a-cops,
we flung our boards
over fences, ignored the chain-
link that mauled our tender flesh.
Back then, we had to remind security
that skateboarding wasn't a crime,
that we brought a beautiful dance
to their otherwise artless concrete,
to their plazas that seemed
to be built just for us,
to their glossy-red curbs
we could crooked grind for days.
If candles were nowhere,
a large paper cup from Carl's Jr.
would suffice as a source of wax.
The bravest of our kind
would trespass alone at night,
saw off or sand down the skate stoppers,
leave the rail naked & new.
If accosted by mad-dogging
pedestrians triggered by the click-
clack of wheels on the sidewalk,
we trusted our chain
wallets could double as nunchucks.
We trusted our trucks could suddenly
make us warriors.
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