The Secret Station

There is a Secret Station that few people outside of the skateboard community know about. It's tucked away directly under the bridge, and its line has no color. Luis Borges is the station master and he sits in the booth looking a cctv screen of himself looking at a cctv screen ad infinitum. He never greets me but he has a pet trilobite and sometimes it looks at me when I hop the turnstile. The Secret Station only has one exit, either at the near or the far end of the skate park, I forget which.
I say skate park but it's not. It's not exactly a DIY either, because virtually no one has ever lifted a finger to do anything. What it is though is the singularity at the core of Taipei's Event Horizon for skateboarding. It's a city that doesn't even let light lift out, and time dilates, and it's impossible to tell how long you've been here and which way causality is flowing.
The Bridge is green now, but then, something in the back of my mind makes me think it was always so. I checked the rolodex of photos I carry around in my pocket and many of them were green, but none were of the bridge, because I haven't been there in the aeons since I got this new rolodex. The box has a metal top now, and the manny pads have been repaired. Faces I didn't know skated around, and OM sulkily taught some toddlers how to roll into everyone's way, while their parents sat on the benches and cheered.
A guy who looked a lot like IS was there, but it wasn't him. The graffiti was the same but shittier, and the faces of the people started to swap around a bit. First it was the guy with the red shirt. He swapped faces with the kid who was trying to ollie up the stage. OM's scour osmosized the children's faces and they wore cloned expressions of anger and disdain for all other living things. The ferns and tropical trees have started to grow behind the fencing. In time, or maybe in the past, the jungle will have been takeninged over the entire place again.

It's not bad for a warm up spot, but for an everyday spot, the bridge is mightily depressing.