Foreign Bodies
Look at them
with their manspreads
their open plan sexual organs
their overdeveloped egos
their bass-boom voices
Just bloody look at them
with their alpha-male postures
their over-muscled buttocks
taking up three seats
their bad-designer stubble
their hangdog hangover eyes
Just fucking look at them
ogling the waitresses
complaining about the service
planning their moves
their cigarette smoke airs
poisoning the atmosphere
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Copyright Mike Hopkins 2018
Image: wikicommons/friedc
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(Some / most of these could be rightly described as “chopped up text”. But that’s how first drafts often look.)
Brill, especially those last lines, Mike!
Thanks Myra.
This would go over so well at Friendly Street – I can just about hear you reading it …. Brilliant picture too – your own? or a purchase?
Thanks Valerie. The image is a “wiki commons”/ free to reuse one I found just using Google Image search. I turned it into a negative and played with the contrast a bit
Love this one Mike, & the image is great too! Amazing how many men sit like that, offering an open invitation to inspect the nether regions.
You have admirably and poetically mansplained it to me.