Eben Fine Park, Boulder
Kayakers don’t like tubers,
teen boys, all arms
and legs joyously spun
down rapids,
barechested, in cutoffs
or board shorts.
Appropriately repellent, helmeted,
these kayak guys seem to feel
they’re in
The Aberdeen Proving Grounds
of middle-aged manhood.
Not that long ago somebody despised
kayakers. (Well they’re hardly Eskimos
foraging a seal meal.) Sport
compromises all
purity. As does purity.
teen boys, all arms
and legs joyously spun
down rapids,
barechested, in cutoffs
or board shorts.
Appropriately repellent, helmeted,
these kayak guys seem to feel
they’re in
The Aberdeen Proving Grounds
of middle-aged manhood.
Not that long ago somebody despised
kayakers. (Well they’re hardly Eskimos
foraging a seal meal.) Sport
compromises all
purity. As does purity.