Ken(nan) Gault 26 December 2020

                       (Ken Gault 1982)

'I wanted to be

Like him,' like Peter

Bock, to be

Peter Bock,

     -I took in Ken Gault, 

     -Drew his face oval,

     -Neck lines to

     -His shoulders;

I wanted his grace,

Self-assuredness,

I paid to

Bring him home,

     -Ears, nose, mouth, with lips

     -Sewn tight, his silence

     -Kept session

     -Serious;

For less than rent, I

Had ownership; peered,

Curious

What he thought,

     -Crayoned some head hair,

     -Worked between colors

     -Of his plaid

     -Shirt, and eyes;

Traded dead air for

Man-made, intimate

Dialogue:

He was hung,

     -Wary expression

     -Eluded more than

     -Proximate

     -Critiquing;

We are connected

Through ex's, 'couldas,

Shouldas,' shares

At the Pines,

     -Invited tricks would

     -Roleplay naked lines

     -With complete

     -Abandon;

'I was a mummy,'

Bandages costumed

Foot-in-mouth

Prevention,

     -Linkages presumed 

     -Staged, histrionic

     -Recital

     -Of housemates;

Hausfraus hummed of their

Experience to

Educate

Innocent,

     -Marched to the beats of

     -A dedicated,

     -Drummer boy

     -Entourage;

Different montage

Predicated search

For inner

Most batboy,

     -Clued on preference

     -Promulgated WASP

     -Attachment

     -To frat boys;

Paid to commingle

With hotel guests, hewed

To 5 Oaks

Showcasers,

     -Waylaid by poets'

     -Friends, window shopped by

     -West Broadway

     -Gallerist;

Fabulous: fiction;

Substantiated:

Fact; (Waldorf

Pragmatist),

     -Exhibitionists

     -Hauled out family

     -Jewels for

     -Inspection;

Bald-faced disclosure

Kept zipped up yule log's 

Warm, drizzled,

After bite,

     -180 degrees

     -Of separation

     -Quarantined

     -Perspective;

Spared KS eclipse

Warranted pallor

For full-blown

Conversion,

     -A dearth of bare mooned

     -Perversity palmed

     -Appetite

     -In austere;

Fulsome hindquarters,

Beano calmed, tooted

Last boyfriend's

Best gossip,

     -Lip serviced forest    

     -For the trees in it,

     -Close pursuit

     -Guaranteed;

Fancied hirsute cloth

Penance applying

Pectoral

Decoupage,

     -Conte accompli,

     -While bandied about

     -Languished with

     -The spectral;

Some doubt distinguished, 

Determination 

That conflicts

Be resolved,

     -Subsumption involved,

     -Spouted sepia

     -To depict

     -Full-blooded.

   

28 December 2020