Duncan Tucker 20 February 2018

                   (Duncan Tucker 1981)


Drawings blanket walls,
Faces plastered, teeth
Receded,
Nails rebuffed,
     -Lessons suspended,
     -Close friends sustained in
     -Solution,
     -Flailing, felled;
Muses ascending,
Illuminated
In sofer's
Transcription,
     -By your rendition,
     -Boys bared Pilgrim souls
     -When cruised in
     -Ninth Circle;
Boots lined corridor,
Jeans gathered at their
Ankles, locked
Inside stalls,
     -No soles exposed, their
     -Privates showcased, knobs,
     -Prodigious,
     -Dialed carnal;
Bodies purged on seats,
Remnants porcelain
Slid, scuttle
In pee soup,
     -He squeezed elixir
     -From key tubes fielding
     -Colors to
     -Propagate;
Uninstalled, addicts
Ambulate among
Circumscribed
Partisans,
     -Brush flicks, primary
     -Yielding nuanced, some
     -Departures
     -Backpedalled;
Tweaking arrivals
Absolved, collegiates
Calibrate
Favor hits;
     -A conscious, turnstile
     -Embarkment; sub, sluice
     -Gate fluid
     -Accretion;
Bartending dealers
Pour libations, juice
Markup cue
Sticks wielding,
     -Lore's assignations
     -Dowse beneath fishbowl
     -Collective
     -Pissings on;
Balls of equal size
Kissed through completion
Of stroke, read
The rule book,
     -Spine cracked sissy boys'
     -Vellum thumbed over
     -Felt's velvet,
     -Cushioned, bed;
Balls pressed together
So that they each have
Contact with
The other,
     -Surgically taped,
     -Tethered to curtained
     -Rod, abridged
     -Edition;
Corner-hooked, when shaft
Makes call shot, pockets
Balls, dollars
On table,
     -Quick earner's life raft,
     -Commodity trade,
     -Booked on site
     -Transactions;
Third shift transitions
Astride cab's bench seat
With enough
Room for all,
     -Hallucinations,
     -Dreams, stuff, jotted down,
     -Pocketed
     -To read out;
Cased, made up, tricked out,
Squared, butched up, worked out,
Vanity

Productions,

     -To audience of
     -One paid to listen,
     -Reflecting
     -Empathy;
Slide out, one foot in
Cab, one on sidewalk,
Drivers' eyes
Offer tips,
     -Visualised as
     -Echoed, unfolding
     -On the walls,
     -Then erased;
Believers strut, bones
Walked, swayed by grace notes,
Elisions,
On bootlegs,
     -Sneakers deprived in
     -Lotus position,
     -Blunt pencil
     -Stub foisted;
An over the top
Art performance done
On site to
Get bookings,
     -Headlamp's allowance,
     -Headlight's conveyance,
     -Strafe, resolve
     -Aperture;
Embroidered slit switch,
Avoided deep throat
Admissions,
Traveled light,
     -Coffees set down, sketch
     -Book slid, jacket stowed,
     -Night's slick borne
     -To shy glance;
Wife beater, muscles,
Embellished macho,
Monster, shrunk,
Impactful,
     -Athlete's white, crew socks,
     -Aesthete's crayon box,
     -Truncated
     -Game pieces;
'Take out the faggot!'
Drive-by Jersey males
Jump tank-top
Outside bar,
     -Unnatural voids
     -Teeter triptych, drunk
     -Outliers

     -Wage skirmish;

Mini-skirted, pink
Wigged, handbag swinging
GeorgeHeGirl
Beats off males,
     -Paint to voice, poet's
     -Words a consciousness
     -Streamed through oils
     -On canvas;
Domicile transferred,
Rearview mirror, mail
Forwarded
Reminders,
     -Loafers for sneakers,
     -Stiff soles cross polished
     -Hardwoods of
     -Designers.

     

20 February 2018