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Basement Skate

The sound of your trucks as they grind

slide off years of ollied concrete in a echoed under croft

Tags and multiformed street art that’s been organically reforming

for forty years

Sweat drenched artists who take pride of place,

in a spot that’s brutal but made beautiful by their presence.

Adding youth culture to the already culturally rich heritage of the south bank.

The pride felt by those who fight concrete land snatchers

to keep intact their land that they grew and grow in.

To move them would be yet another nail in the coffin of youth.

Who don;t need any more humiliations

by those who lack comprehension,

of what it’s like to live in a city that takes every opportunity

to remind them that they are nothing more

then second class citizens.

Stand along side them to keep

the beat box

tricks and drops

 

alive

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