"JCG"

 

WALKS LIKE A CAT

EVERY STRIDE EPITOMIZES NATURAL RHYTHM

FLOWING NOT LIKE A ZOMBIE

HIS THIGHS SPLIT WITH EACH STRIDE

 

NO UNCONTROLLED WOBBLE

OF EXTRAINEOUS BULK

HIS PECS DO NOT HANG

THEY FIT SLAB-LIKE ACROSS HIS CHEST

 

COMPLEMENTING HIS HUGE RIBCAGE

NO SCRAGGY NECK

IT WAS IN PROPORTION

AND THE FORMATION OF HIS TRAPEZIUS

ESPECIALLY WHEN VIEWED FROM THE REAR

HAS YET TO BE EVEN MILDLY DUPLICATED

HIS CALVES WERE BULKY

AND HAD CUTS THAT DEFIED THE IMAGINATION

HIS LATS WERE BUILT

NOT JUST IN THE UPPER REGIONS

BUT EQUALLY LOWER DOWN HERE

IS JOHN CARROLL GRIMEK

OUT OF THE SEA

IF PERFECT HARMONY

MONARCH OF MUSCLE

THE POSING LIGHTS ARE SET

 

SPREAD YOUR LATISSIMUS DORSI

OUR EYES POP OUT

TONGUES BANG OUR TOES

ONE MORE TIME

WE ARE ON OUR KNEES

COME ON ARISE

SUPREME MASTER OF THE 20TH CENTURY

GOD SAVE THEE

ROUND THE DRIFTS

THE SNOWY CLIFFS

THE ICE SPLITS

   

SHEEN HELMET ON STENO-BEAST

THE RUDDERMAN WEANED A GOD

SOUTHERN ALBATROSS

FOUND THE MARIONETTE

AND ROARED IN FOG CLOUD

WOUNDED PERCHED VESPERS UNIVERSE

THE NIGHT ALBATROSS WHITE

GLIMMERING SOUL

THROUGH THUNDER FLEW

DISMAL SHAPES OF MEN

RED WIND

THE ICE WAS HERE

THE ICE UNIVERSE

THE ICE WAS ALL

IT CRACKED

IT JUMPED

HALLO

 

SOUNDS IN A SUN MAST SHROUD

NINE LENGTHS CROTON IN READY

FOGSMOKE

AS IF IT HAD BEEN MOONSHINE

WE HAIL

©1999, Michael Zugin

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