AT THE ELEPHANT:

 

The boys courted the girls with blunt sexual bravado 

& the girls reciprocated, laughing. The South 

London boys carried cans concealed in black plastic 

bags, single cans to set the blood fizzing for a

Saturday night uptown. The boys from Eastern Europe

passed a single plastic bottle round between them,swigging, 

laughing loud & shouting, intimidating the theatre crowd. 

But the boys from South London drank alongside them as if 

there was a wall between them, until the Eastern European 

Boys raised their plastic bottle in salute, touching it 

to the rims of the South London Boy’s cans,

“Yay!”.

The girls crossed & uncrossed their legs, watching 

with wild & excited eyes, dressed tight & revealing, 

taunting winter’s bitter wind with their relentless sexuality.  

 

(K)