When the Dogs Bite: 11th February 2025

packed with masc women

turning up the heat

A loss of weight brings unforeseen distress

belly-sags of skin disinclined to shrink

a factor of my age, the doctors says, and breasts

deflate and sag like spent balloons in pink.

But worse be flesh of those who younger lose

so many pounds of fat, Ozempically,

and, hating sagging skin in mirror, choose

the route of body-lifting surgery.

Costing more than twenty thousand pounds

(plus room, anaesthesia, recovery)

this new-requested body mod has found

a medical cosmeticology.

But here’s the joy: six weeks to heal complete

with beaut'ous scars these lovers will compete.

When the Dogs Bite