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the barbecue

bespeckled, blotched & blokey

feminine in aspects

only little ****** hair patches

two chins,

or rather a sloped one

the front evenly declining to the middle of the throat

a gradual slope from the tip, for juices to run if his manner and situation allowed him to be as casual and sloppy as his laziness chose,

 

torso without form, so there was no curvature on the buttocks or the fly region.

a mass

a blob of bulges on spindly legs

 

he leans on the wall

stubby in hand he balks

(he means jovial but unintentionally he vocalises mockery)

at the suggestion that the Pies will do better

& that Eddie is a clever man due for thanks, who has done his club well (apparently a straight Aussie arrow tried and true!)

 

the man ***** his head back & cackles

(the trebly popping bubbles of a gala crackle outwards as the man cackles)

& decides his arms need a rest,

(a long day of up and down they have had indeed, they deserve respect, or rest (or a benching))

so he places his beer down

on a sloped surface,

& therefore it slips down….

 

he sees it plummeting, he stretches toward it's tragic trajectory,

…..but he is too slow

it smashes

on his foot (the shards) the beer bottle it transfigures,

and the shards they impart their misery on his toes.

The shards they intrude on his relaxed state of wellbeing, they intrude on the security sanctioned within the casual footwear of a man at a barbecue; taking it easy.

he swears and hops, reaching in indignation for his bleeding toes

he holds the wound cursing; resisting the impulse to begin convulsive throws

(an oscar worthy performance from a usually suburbaly urbane individual)

 

the moisture feels degrading

(as it would within a man's pants)

the pain from the cuts it is worsened

by the smirking gazes of others about

 

he hobbles, disregarding his thong in the wreckage of the scene

 

off to retrieve a band aid

to mend his ego

and his foot

simultaneously

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aj-robertson
Australian
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Mar 18, 2013
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