underground 500

city rugger boy
    curls his plump lip
        at the heaving
    sweatmobile juddering
with the overexerted
        heart capacity. the
    lanklong russet hairpiece
        and full auburn
            beard, a bold
    open chest orange-grey
    sprouting. black shirt
        festooned in hair,
        black pants draped
    in hair. all over
        moulting like
        a golden retriever.
            the groomed, plucked
            and perfumed city boy
        stares with
    manifest affrontery at
        the dripping back
    neckfolds, willing him
to disembark or implode.

from Start Dancing, 2004