You, in your skinny jeans

There’s a tautness

around the seams

that’s rather pleasing

a tensing of the fabric

as you move

the definition of your buttocks

is quite teasing

and of the creasing

across your thighs

we do approve.

We take pleasure

in the way

the cloth enfolds you:

there’s a harmony –

the touch, the look, the sound.

There’s a sense

that a voice inside your head

still scolds you

for wearing skin-tight jeans

around the town.

But please pay no

attention to its chiding

never change

don’t toe a puritan line

for there are some

the other side of living

who think

that you

in those

look rather fine.