KATE THOMAS - SKATEBOARD

Kate Thomas is a graduate of Clemson University with a Bachelor's in English with a minor in Creative Writing. She was the first place winner of Clemson University's 2016 Creative Writing Award in Poetry and plans to pursue an MFA in the near future. 

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                                               Skateboard
 
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I tell him that I can’t
come over right now
because my mom just
called and said that my
brother is standing on top
of that building downtown
with his skateboard half
on the concrete, half on
the open air and he may
or may not be sick again.
So he tells me that he’s
sure he won’t actually
do anything but he gets
in his car and meets me
downtown in the parking
garage where my brother
and I saw our mom kissing
that bartender from that
dark, Irish pub. We run
out until we’re under the
building but there’s no
one up there on top of it.
So I grab his plaid shirt and
open my mouth to ask where
he thinks my brother is but
then I hear a skateboard
on the next street over.