"You know what everybody is going to say if it's a nice stretch -- 'Boy, it was a nice stretch; too little, too late; they got themselves in a hole' -- all those things.
It's a world that stretches from boys who eventually see themselves as transgender to those who affirm that they're boys, but boys in dresses.
Certain tensile limits in the flava, capsule, and process ligaments of the neck and upper back were gently but persistently stretched, the boy's chin placed to his (solubly arrowed and dotted) chest at mid-sternum and then slid incrementally down — one, sometimes 1.5 millimetres a day — and this catatonic and/or meditative posture held for an hour or more.
Play that fucking music, white boy! Stretching the last two words to a groaning, derisive, Bugs Bunnyesque whyyyyyyyboy!
In quick, deft strokes, she pits the innocent pride of youth ("the boy stretched on the lawn, / fighting sleep, / fingers the tournament ring") against an atmosphere of gathering menace ("Wet daggers of grass," "eyelashes like / tiny whips"), and ends with an image of Whitmanesque generosity and mournfulness: "I have seen them / sleepwalk / out of the arms of mothers".
Raven's torso was a muscled wonder, emphasized by stars and tiger stripes, and the words American Boy stretched across his improbable abdomen.
This one is like calling David Cameron "spam-head" or Piers Morgan "the skin of a boy stretched over the body of a toad" – it's a given.
An image appeared to us like that of the Virgin Mother in the sky: that of the body of a little Syrian boy, drowned, stretched out like a jellyfish on a Turkish beach," it continues.
"He will not make training but all the tactical stuff has been done during the week and it's just about the boys stretching their legs tonight, so it will not be a disruption.
"He will not make training but all the tactical stuff has been done during the week and it's just about the boys stretching their legs, so it will not be a disruption.
