Skux and Skuxette: A tribute to Dr Seuss

I've been thinking for some time that skux sounded like a word Dr Seuss would have made up.  According to Urban Dictionary, there is some disagreement over the original usage of this word.  There are claims from Upper Hutt, Newlands College and Rongotai College among others.  Some have even gone so far as to claim that Ma'a Nonu was the original Skux.

Disclaimer:  All characters appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. (ie If the skuxy shoe fits, you'll just have to wear it.)

I like to go walking and look at the sights

I like to go watching in daytime, at night.

I’ve seen many things, I’ve seen colours and patterns

I’ve seen dancers and runners and girls tossing batons

I’ve seen bikers and joggers and walkers and skaters

I’ve seen mums pushing prams and bikes like alligators

But one day while watching

and feeding the ducks

I noticed a new thing

I noticed a skux

He swaggered and

waggled in baggy blue jeans

the crotch down so low

it was bursting the seams.

His i-pod was blasting

with reggae and rap

his long hair was covered

by a black, stickered cap

Now this style of dress

really didn’t make sense

and the way that he walked

was like picking up 50 cents.

But he seemed to be certain

that this was the way

to get girls to look over and

this was his day.

He was skuxxing  and skuxy

he was skuxed, skuxically

It got skuxier and skuxier

Pure Skuxery

I thought he had failed

I was sure, I was certain

I was turning off lights and

pulling the curtain

When round from the corner

Flanked by her posse

With long skinny legs.

and hair shiny and glossy

She sashayed and preened

You’ve guessed it, I bet

Right before my eyes

A shining skuxette!

The skux was all ready,

he swaggered some more.

Skuxette rolled her eyes

as though life was a bore.

She flicked back her hair

cos you know what she wants:

an image of studied

but sweet non-chalance.

He digs it, she digs it

They’re both diggin’ it hard

No surprises what’s next

He played the skux card

It was sweet-talker charming

just what I thought

and she sweet-talkered back,

to cut a long story short –

They swaggered and sashayed

off into the sunset

fingers intertwined, though they’d

only just met.

Sorry if it’s a spoiler

but that’s what you’ll get

If you encounter, while out walking

a Skux and Skuxette.