List of the Lost - Morrissey

List of the Lost
Ezra, Nails, Harri, Justy. You’d dig hard and deep to excavate
four names quite so unusual. Yet there they were and there
they stood, sounding exactly like what they were. You would
be offered a hearty shake of the javelin hand as expressions of
possession of command from the four boys, each one fully
developed into the blissful torment of their turnabout twentieth
year – a pleasantly resolved marital union almost closed off in
its camaraderie to the onlookers of the mookish greater world.
Look at them now in their manful splendor and wonder how it
is that they could possibly part this earth in dirt, as creased
corpses, falling back as the skeletons that we already are, yet
hidden behind musculature that will fall in time at life’s
finishing line. At such an unavoidable call they shall be minus
all that they now have, here and today, at ease in the
confidence of their physical weightlessness, united in athletic
skill from which they beg no acquittal. Our four boys have no
hidden disappointments, for they equally bear the gift of hipto-ankle
idolized speed, their bodies calmly narcissistic ass-tothe-grass
instruments com-mingled to become, as they now
knew they were, America’s most sovereignly feared college
relay team, with a unity that could send shivers through any
braying jackass who might be fool enough to doubt them. The
race begins and their bodies reply in relay, constantly
responsible and on each other’s watch; four bodies of one
heart, never forgetting themselves as being one single
reflection. Imperishable, they train insatiably; companions in
pleasure and passionate in sentiments, they are the living
picture of the desired physique and the voluntary affection
amongst friends that survives time. Beyond each other and
their will to run, they seek no other distraction. People
magnetically attract others with similar weaknesses, as
marriage rings the bell for the servile in hiding. Ezra, Nails,
Harri and Justy performed marital duties as joined by
strengths, but not weaknesses, and this crowned their lives.
They each saw the desirable object within each other, and
combined, they had no cause to justify one second of their
contract. It may be quite true that we unwisely reduce others in