Observe

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Monday 7 November 2011

Deptford (P)Elvis


A gyrating moron twists and turns,
‘cross the dance-floor he mistakenly thinks he owns,
Toward the trio of voluminous beauties collected there
Half-stepping, and laughing, and flicking their hair.

The trio are blissfully unaware of the approaching fool,
Absorbed, as they are now, with reminiscences of school,
Of dancing, as then, to trashy 80’s songs
Older now, inflated, but with more easily visible thongs.

The idiot sidles, pelvic-thrusts, and slides his way
To his faded, nostalgic, and unsuspecting prey,
Takes one final fortifying swig of his J & D
And selects his target from the ravishing three.

He shifts his (considerable) weight and sidesteps into the group
With a dramatic dance flourish; a boogie swoop,
Meant to ingratiate him as one of ‘those fun guys’,
But his ALDI Audrey Hepburn merely rolls her eyes,

Shifts her (also considerable) weight so as to give a surreptitious wink
To her (similarly bloated) friend, the dirigible in pink,
Who laughs, pointedly and uproariously, at the audacity of men
Who think (like the pigs they are) that they’re good enough for women like them.

So she blocks him and with one last, delighted guffaw
Escorts the gaggle away from the dance-floor,
From this Pavlova Cassanova, this interloper
Who dared to stare but did not care for her

So he sucks down his humiliation, drowns the remains of his drink
And returns to the bar; his strut now more of a slink.
Restores bravado with JD, two doubles, both neat
And waits for his next chance to dance; his next crushing defeat.

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