machismo stands six foot seven 
                                                         weighs two eighty seven

flicks toothpicks 
into the faces of mathematicians
          keeps an extra ear-perched 

struts swarthy slicks hair
gold adorned broad shouldered
           poses like an unmartyred Christ

smacks the backs of heads
tosses a jobber with the caress
          of a straight razor’s edge


machismo sits
          in a jagged narrow room
          unlit by the solitude of dark

with a sigh it awaits the day
          alas at last 
          he can be forgot.

Sameer Saklani is a Supervillain who dons a metal mask with a face unseen and hails from a place where the sun don’t gleam. Being accompanied to the ring by his feline manager, Maddie, he is the reigning, defending, undisputed, undefeated Heavyweight Champion of the World. Step aside, booker man, all shoot, he’s going over.