Eskimos Poem by Mark Heathcote

Let us love like Eskimos
Throw off heavy animal-skins
Remove all our underclothes
Stretch out our tired limbs.

Let us nose kiss and open-
Ice holes we can fish.
Eating their hearts just-frozen
Still open-mouthed writhed.

Snowmen haven't we all warmed
To some melting point-
Freeze in this permafrost
With rheumatoid arthritis

Let us be Eskimos here and now
With few external ice walls
Let us be naked skin to skin, avow
To drop all work-related coveralls

Haven't we built igloos brick by brick?
Only then to-bed-down separately-
In wear's, you can't unpack-or-preshrink
Let's naked, each-warm the other inseparably.