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I	A
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The coltish horseplay of the locker room	B
Moist with the steam of the tiled shower stalls	C
With shameless blends of civet musk and sweat	D
Loud with the cap gun snapping of wet towels	E
Under the steel ribbed cages of bare bulbs	F
In some such setting of thick basement pipes	G
And janitorial realities	H
Boys for the first time frankly eye each other	I
Inspect each others bodies at close range	J
And what they see is not so much another	I
As a strange possible version of themselves	K
And all the sparring dance adrenal life	L
Tense jubilant nimbleness is but a vague	M
Busy unfocused ballet of self love	N
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II	A
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If the heart has its reasons perhaps the body	O
Has its own lumbering sort of carnal spirit	P
Felt in the tingling bruises of collision	Q
And known to captains as esprit de corps	R
What is this brisk fraternity of timing	S
Pivot and lobbing arc or indirection	Q
Mens sana in men s sauna in the flush	T
Of health and toilets private and corporal glee	O
These fleet caroms plies and genuflections	R
Before the salmon leap the leaping fountain	Q
All sheathed in glistening light flexed and alert	U
From the vast echo chamber of the gym	V
Among the stumbled shouts and shrill of whistles	R
The bounced basketball sound of a leather whip	W
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III	A
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Think of those barren places where men gather	I
To act in the terrible name of rectitude	X
Of acned shame punk s pride muscle or turf	Y
The bully s thin superiority	O
Think of the Sturm Abteilungs Kommandant	O
Who loves Beethoven and collects Degas	R
Or the blond boys in jeans whose narrowed eyes	R
Are focussed by some hard and smothered lust	O
Who lounge in a studied mimicry of ease	R
Flick their live butts into the standing weeds	R
And comb their hair in the mirror of cracked windows	R
Of an abandoned warehouse where they keep	Z
In darkened readiness for their occasion	Q
The rope the chains handcuffs and gasoline	Q
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IV	Y
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Out in the rippled heat of a neighbor s field	O
In the kilowatts of noon they ve got one cornered	O
The bugs are jumping and the burly youths	R
Strip to the waist for the hot work ahead	O
They go to arm themselves at the dry stone wall	A2
Having flung down their wet and salty garments	R
At the feet of a young man whose name is Saul	A2
He watches sharply these superbly tanned	O
Figures with a swimmer s chest and shoulders	R
A miler s thighs with their self conscious grace	R
And in between their sleek converging bodies	R
Brilliantly oiled and burnished by the sun	Q
He catches a brief glimpse of bloodied hair	B2
And hears an unintelligible prayer	B2

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