Cool Sneakers Grandpa!

I'm sorry its been awhile
since we last talked
and even then it
was brief

I'll be free next week
I've been telling myself
for the last 8 weeks
at least

on the upside
I learned to ride my bike
hands free
the motive for which is equal parts

creativity, means to bike
and smoke and hold my coffee
and a way out tempting
a minor medical emergency

so goddamn old
so come and go
so goddamn old
so come and go

it always surprises me
how often I find myself
thinking about
people who come and go
so fleetingly

accelerate and hit the curb
I wonder what I'll earn
when I get to where
I think I'm going?

a conversation overheard
you said a series of serious words
and now my lack of
confidence is showing

so goddamn old
so come and go
so goddamn old
so come and go

so goddamn old
so come and go
so goddamn old
so come and go

it always surprises me
how often I find myself
thinking about
people who come and go
so fleetingly

wohoo!

accelerate and hit the curb
I wonder what I'll earn
when I get to where
I think I'm going?

a conversation overheard
you said a series of serious words
and now my lack of
confidence is showing

wearing the same old kicks
I bought back in the summer of '06
if it weren't for the dog and the meddling kids
no one would've ever known that shit

I could ollie up a curb
before you even said your first words
school you motherfuckers in halo one

The cool kiddos all go out for smoke breaks
all long unwashed hair and Illinois fakes
the mustachio bros and even the laddies
wearing the same fucking matching carhart hats say to me:

Cool sneakers grandpa!

so goddamn old
so come and go
so goddamn old
so come and go

so goddamn old
so come and go
so goddamn old
so come and go

Kids with their drones
in their twenties
with their iphone twenties
and virtual reality stuff

I'd rather stay at home
and watch my tv shows
on the couch
feeling old as fuck