Takedown Portraits

Takedown Portraits
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Patrick Angus 28 September 2019

 
                    (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
   




 

   








   
   


   


   

 



 
   

   
   
   
   




 
   







 















   
   
   









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