<link href="../css/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:35fd7fd8-21d0-40f3-8fdb-559f2b820702" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body> <h2 class="chap-title" id="ch25">Gangly</h2> <p class="noindent3"><span class="dropcap">I</span>’m a gangly kid,</p> <p class="noindent3a"> one of those drunk marionettes,</p> <p class="noindent3a"> one of those baby giraffes with inner ear syndrome.</p> <p class="noindent3a"> A flailing stork in high winds. A stilted freak.</p> <p class="noindent3">I am an easel—not symbolically—structurally.</p> <p class="noindent3a"> I attempt to dance and become a tornado of elbow.</p> <p class="image"><img alt="image" src="../images/p038.jpg"/></p> </body> </html>