Taking The Stairs

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? - Thoreau

cigarettes danglin'

young and new fanglin'

windows rolled down

wind in thick, mullet hair

holes in threadbare jeans

cruising 'round in a gold, tricked out, ford grenada

going everywhere and nowhere

betting life on a wing and a prayer

custom stereo blaring the stones to near deafness

rattling neighborhood windows

causing tremors in patched asphalt

like the san andreas fault

rockin' and rollin' by default

knowing everything and nothing

the world was ours and youth forever

the music and times would never end

joy and happiness just around the next bend

there was no tomorrow

no yesterday

no worries

no cares

no false airs

the world ours and not theirs

the future a game of musical chairs

whilst everybody waited for the elevator

we ran up the stairs

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

Loved the last lines re how everyone waited for the elevator you ran up stairs. Yes I did that too and love music still. We put our records on a lot now like yesterday played csny and a bit of Neil young alone.
I really Loved your descriptives.

We had it all the best times of our life in our youth and didn’t even really know it
well done 👍

[Buddhistboy73]

Liked the upbeat, anarchic energy of this poem ...:)

It is indeed evocative of The Rolling Stones and their charisma and F£K it attitude to ife...

Nice rhyming scheme....

Cheers Pete...

BB73

[John the Baptist]

Aye, I recall such times and behaviors. I am much more comfortable in my old age with my classical music now.

[Pete]

good for you j the b, you've earned the right. "Old age is manlier and has learned to live. It makes fewer apologies, like infancy." - Thoreau

[Davidgeo]

It's a nice valentine to the Rolling Stones. Also made me think of 1980's Bruce Springsteen.

[Pete]

appreciate the thoughts. rock on.