He walked slowly, with that classic cowboy strut that you find so mesmerizing and masculine but is just awkward enough that you are certain it is the gait that develops from spending 20 years riding a horse and slowly twisting and turning the shape of your hip bones so that they can get a more secure grip on the quadruped’s back. It is just barely unattractive.
His shirt was striped. Opposing forces of deep purple and an ocean-spray of blue. A dress shirt that was sorely being misused as a work shirt. He rarely wears these shirts when he isn’t working – I could tell he was just coming into town quickly. In fact I’ve only ever seen him in t-shirts – the bane of the male body; they never display everything that is going on just quite as well as a dress shirt does.
The T-shirt is like the speaker at a protest that tells all the facts and nothing more. The Dress Shirt tells all the facts, makes you understand why their important, has a little bit of charm and a heavy dosage of sex, and makes you fall in love. (On a side note, I really should start wearing dress shirts more often).
His brow was still sweating. It’s been really hot outside for a couple of days.
The other nice thing about dress shirts is that they can be altered. Sometimes they can worn with a tie. Other times they can have the first button undone. Sometimes the second, or the third.
In this case, the third.
I saw hair on the chest of a man whom I only allowed myself to think of as a post-pubescent but hairless child. I judged him by his level of maturity – a poor standard as he is a stellar man, but the standard I have decided to use. Besides, he couldn’t grow facial hair if he really tried – how am I to imagine that he has hair on his chest? (How am I supposed to stop imagining where else he might have hair and the different mazes and shapes that the collected mass of each strand forms?)
He leaned in. I could feel my groin tingling with sensation. Stop.
“Hey. Is Carson in here?”
No, I haven’t seen him.
“Oh, that’s the truck that he usually drives out there.”
Oh, which one is that? – He pointed.
His name is Brock.
As he walked away his slightly deformed gait was all the more attractive – and yet, not free of criticism. (Besides, he could much more easily wrap his legs around me than he could around an 800 pound stallion.)
I need to find a man to dance with.
You got my full attention when you wrote about chest hair. I've been obsessed with hairy chests since I was a little boy (and that was some time ago). I take it you consider hair on a man's body to be a sign of maturity and masculinity, as I do.
ReplyDeleteI still can't understand why so many men today shave their bodies. Doesn't make any sense to me. I think men should be proud of their hairy chests and show them off as often as possible.
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed reading this post.