Ode to Sexy


by Lauren King





Sexy.

    Sexy is like a freshly honed blade reflecting lamplight.

         Sexy is like a leather-bound collector’s edition of

"The Lord of the Rings" or a 200-year-old copy of Milton’s

"Paradise Lost" with

 

                   engraved

 

                                panels.  Sexy is like a blood-red 

    Katana

and a midnight-black Ninja racing down the street,

 

                       hugged between thighs clad in worn leather.

 

               Sexy is like grapes, like strawberries, like a

cherry popsicle on a hot day.

 

                              Hot.

 

               Hot day.

 

  Sexy is like  a perfect dead-on shot between

the eyes, executed while dropping upside-down from the rafters of

a high building with nothing but

 

              luck

                             to catch the fall.

 

Sexy is like chocolate.

 

             Sexy is like the near-silent snick

 

                           snick         snick         snick          snick

 

     of a well used blade flipping open.

 

         Sexy is like a tailored black suit and a loosened tie.

 

       Sexy is like the clean lines of a perfectly oiled

Beretta M-82 handgun. Sexy is like a formal red shirt half

unbuttoned, like the quiet clink of chains

                                   shifting in the dark.

 

Sexy is like a flawless

 

                                                  flawless

 

                                      spinning jump kick, like flipping up

    into a standing position without using any hands, like a gothic

cathedral viewed by the light of the moon and stars. 

           Sexy is like boots, big black leather boots with

strong soles and steel toes and buckled straps crisscrossing, crisscrossing.

 

        Crisscrossing,            crisscrossing.

 

        Sexy is like a dark velvet rose with water-bead-diamonds

 shining on its petals and blood glistening on its thorns. Sexy is

like chopsticks and Chinese food, like a plate of good sushi.

 

Sexy is like a narrow-eyed glare and a smile that isn’t a smile, like

 

                                bone-white

 

    teeth framed by picture-perfect lips.

 

Sexy is like that guy in your class, the one who would be

totally quiet

if it weren’t for the fact that the zippers and the straps and the

buckles on his pants jingle every time he moves,

 

                                 the one who walks like he owns you,

 

           owns you

 

who stands with his hips cocked to one side and his shirt riding up

just the tiniest bit over that flat stomach, who never says a thing

but who knows all the answers.

 

                                      All the answers.

 

Sexy is like fire, like a flame, a candle, a liquid tongue

of light chasing away the shadows

 

                                         only to cast more.

 

            Sexy is like jagged bangs, like tousled hair, like the

wind whispering and playing through a gun-metal earring.

    Sexy is like being in the back of the line and being let in

first anyway. Sexy is like a martini cradled on fingertips, like

a shot of vodka tossed back hard.

 

                                  Harder than hard.

 

                         Sexy is like a long smooth calf, like

slender ankles wrapped in leather. Sexy is like dark sunglasses, and

everything they do and

                                         do not hide.

            Sexy is like a trench coat swirling around a street

corner, like a city in the rain, like fog creeping along the surface of a

lake, across the ground, across a forest of skyscrapers.

 

         Sexy is like a new moon in winter, like a thunderstorm, like

an earthquake, like a tornado that’s found water to play with.

 

        And play with.

 

Sexy is  like finding the perfect words on a page buried at

the back of a library and realizing that you already

 

                    knew them,

                             know them,

                                      will always know them.

 

            Sexy is like teeth on a collarbone, like lips on a

shoulder, chest, palm, like a tongue sliding up the back of a

 

                  thigh.

 

      Sexy is like a scarf, like warming hands numbed by the cold,

like flushed cheeks. Sexy is like the first hesitant brush of lips

in the park, like a hand tangled in

 

 hair,

        gripping,

                   pulling back head,

                                      baring neck,

                              tongue,

                     teeth,

          thrusting,

                          ravaging,

                                         taking hold and never letting go.

 

                         Never                            Letting

                            go.                                go.

 

        Sexy is like an old, overstuffed, worn leather chair.

 

  Sexy is like a hand on a hipbone, fingers in a back pocket, chest

 pressed to shoulder blades.

             Sexy is like a polished mahogany desk, a full bookcase,

a grand staircase.

 

Sexy is like hands tangled in sheets,

 

       white knuckled,

 

                                                  gripping,

 

                          holding,

 

                                            desperate,

 

              breaking,

 

                                         rushing,

 

                              free.

 

                                                             Free.