Poet's corner.

   Just a simple deck and trucks, for a crappy match,
   Don't forget the wheels and grip tape or the hardware batch
   Now add to that all your tickets, skateboarding costs too much.
   Driven through pain, through passion and love. Cops don't see it as
   such.
   If Michael Jordan were little and told, "That ball makes too much
   noise!"
   He wouldn't be an athlete, or looked up to, by all these gifts and
   boys.
   Then what about young Tiger Woods
   and all that destroyed grass?
   If he were told not to golf, I'm sure he'd kick some ass.
   They think we skate to rebel, now it's seen as bad,
   But it's a sport, not to be cited, no wonder we get mad.
   Believe me when I say this,
   skateboarding's not a crime,
   I guess they'll never understand
   They're lost in another time.

--Nikki Gillen, Huntington Beach, CA