The ollie is an essential trick.
It’s a door; if you can open it,
you can open others.
We had to go to Israel in order to skate.
“What do you get out of it?”
That’s what people would say.
Observe closely.
One, two, I get on.
One, two, I get on.
The day the skatepark opened, I was here,
and the army came and fired tear gas.
Let’s make a circle.
Let’s learn another trick.
This one in the front, that’s one.
Two, they’re next to each other.
Three, I lift my foot.
Don’t you feel like you’re flying?
I imagine there’s no occupation,
there’s no wall.
With every new trick it’s like
you become aware of a new life.
It’s like when something has been missing.
And you’re looking for it.
And slowly you find it.
I learn to live.
That’s what I get out of it.
Verbatim Poetry 