(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
