Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 20:57:41 +0100 (CET) From: Teresa Yam Subject: An Ugly Ballet (poem) AN UGLY BALLET Three young men performing a ballet of sorts Like well-hung sailors, pricks in all ports Pretty boys and bodies perfectly honed Willy does the gland jive while fully boned An ugly ballet with beautiful players Wriggling and writhing in dutiful layers Flesh slicked and sheened in perspiration Their own gender the main inspiration The camera shifts to stage right and then left A story with no meaning and plot bereft What looks like a dance is really just a tangle But at least we can see the angle of dangle