Then appearing to see how children see.
You are an infantilizing monster
though the chest is good. How
all of the properties you were embarrassed about
I reveled in. The countless tent-
pole pores and skin slung between them.
How is this gizzard flesh not repellant?
But even if not wizening under the clothes this:
say you are a totally average kid who
through literally nothing but inaction
fell into intramural football in your
freshman year of college
and got huge. But not quite like that.
Say, you, muscular and pert
though not at serendipity's sake
but hard work. You were a not
unpopular camp counselor all summer
(you never did this, my loving was contingent upon it)
and suffered Exodus-like bug-bites
and sun burn, but grew long sinewy muscles
and your forearm hair went from black
through tawny to golden. Ebullient;
verdurous; less knowledge but for res verum.
Decorous deltoids, whether you slay the eye
or string the soul up from the willowy
tendrils of an old Yew and all the arils fall off
the thrushes will know what to do.
