Big Boy Hunk
The Big Boy Hunk that isn’t Rupert Brooke
On Skyros is just too, too like the false,
False images built up around him, like a crook
Has pulled a dirty trick but wants to waltz
With you, no matter what. The Big Boy Hunk
Stands towering there above the profile made
Of metal in its squared up shape. The junk
Between those thighs would never make the grade
In bed with Denham, Taatamata or
His worshipers post-death. The curves of “Brooke”
Himself are offset by the four by four
By four shapes underneath. They mock the look
Of him in life. Rectangles, squares, and straight
Lines contradict the truth of beauty’s weight.
~ Phillip Whidden