on the tube
three skateboarders in their thirties
battered boards cradled between legs
one of them begins to spin one wheel
it hums like a trapped wasp
‘it’s like peeling the label off a bottle, man’
the spinner says
‘it’s just the frustration’
at which the other two
begin to spin their wheels
nothing more is said
Roddy Williams is an artist, writer and photographer, based in London. He has recently seen publication with Magma, Smiths Knoll, South Poetry and TheNewerYork’s Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature.