(Patrick Angus 1981)
After Picasso,
Boyfriend, shared living
Space, working
Some odd jobs,
-Locker fob holder,
-Crisco provider,
-'All the world's
-A stage, ...all...'
'Men merely players,
They have their exits
They have their
Entrances,'
-'And one man in his
-Time plays many parts,'
-Fits and starts,
-Bleared layers;
Parental liars
Doublespoke from scripts
Approved by
Dr. Spock,
-Maternal lectured,
-Fetched stillborn etchings
-Disfigured
-By blunt force;
Seppuku tanto,
Forged into forceps,
Extracted
Desire,
-Erotic brandished,
-Solitary hands
-Foraged in
-Confinement;
Billboard promotions,
Theatre marquees,
Overplayed
Public acts,
-Overshadowed set
-Pieces stage crew struck
-Unveiling
-Flecked back walls;
Stacked decks of back rooms,
Private flush varnished
Curtained schlong
To full house,
-Pulls doused bare boards, knees
-Crawled in spent flannel,
-Featured stripped,
-Banal shows;
Lines erased, boards, scraped
Of hog-tied pigment,
Bruised into
Existence,
-Self-portraits within
-Bartered mirror stared
-Down, losing
-Ligaments;
Covertly observed
Lineaments addressed
Intimate,
Arresting,
-Narrative viewpoints
-Of impermanence
-Redressed their
-Poverty;
Third wheel punditry
Admitted one to
Proximate
Languishing,
-Three point turned attack
-Remitted depths of
-Orifice
-Labyrinth;
Scenes postulated
Unsolicited,
Recursive
Banqueting,
-Brushed innuendo
-Tempered consummate,
-And frankly
-Alluring,
There lived a Santa
Barbarian, who
Longed to blow
Clarions,
-Engaged in banter
-With sectarians
-Taught Greek by
-Hadrian;
In Apollo's rooms
Aught pedestrian,
Enslaved by
The rhythm,
-Brought unstoppable,
-Hedonists groomed to
-Indenture
-Their pythons;
Lithesome, inclined toward
Material world,
Where, con freed,
Money talked,
-Diphthongs declined from
-Hanky panky screed
-Denatured
-Of honey;
Boney placater
Banked on bangathon
War between
Youth and age,
-Boys do fall in love,
-Soothsayer's adage,
-Disparaged
-Naysayers;
There lived a New York
Artist, alone, drew,
Ars longa,
Vie brevis,
-A limpid martyr
-To gallerists' views
-That wagered
-Dry canvas;
Honestly displayed
Priced out-of-pocket,
Placed at hand,
Out of sight,
-Heard in dried, downward,
-Smooth strokes, felt inside
-Upward twists,
-Impasto;
Applied impostor,
Insinuating
Dissembler
(Blended in),
-Covert procuror,
-Took on bailed out tint
-For a blind
-Run through shade;
Sharp edged, amorphous,
Delineated
Sensory
Conditions,
-Censored existence
-Published bilingual
-Dialogue,
-Narration;
Admission paid to
Walk dioramas,
Corporal
Museum,
-Purposeful seizures
-Laid recognition
-At the feet
-Of cultured,
Uniform secured
Guarded access to
Wall space punched
On the clock,
-Leisured accession
-Afforded Wall Street,
-And Warhol
-Denizens;
Show Palace stalls nixed
Gallery stable,
Backroom deals
Darkroom sales,
-Finessed shots fianced
-Coterie, tabloid
-Features to
-Celluloid;
Deltoids, pectorals,
Abdominals, quads,
Studies made
In Chambers,
-They never stayed on
-After favoured, rent
-Boys- not tricks-
-Encumbered;
Reveries tucked in
Domestic sphere drew
Out ripened
Meatiness,
-Masculine resolved
-In medium, took
-The hotdog
-For a roll;
Wiener diary
Shook idolater's
Pose fixed stare
Direction,
-Protracted eyeballs
-On eyeballs ruptured
-Subsurface
-Ventricle;
Public's fickle itch
Scratched, fiery blood
Sport fanned, twitched
For new schtick,
-Artists' paintballs shot
-At canvas, figures
-Perceived bled
-Emotions.
28 September 2019
