Christopher Makos 16 January 2021

               (Christopher Makos 1969)

Documenting fast

Forward flashpoints from

Occasioned

Encounters,

     -Evocative pose

     -Studied in pigment

     -Without a

     -Set pretext;

Rolls of exposures

Developed on sheets

Promulgate

Their context,

     -Diced composition

     -Expounded over

     -Carte blanche propped

     -On easel;

Captioned sightings time

Stamped generation,

Black and white

Filled in blanks,

     -Fresco appointment,

     -Extempore sketch,

     -Momento

     -Impression;

Happenstance, minute,

Parterre swivels of

Heads, arms, hands, 

Legs, and feet,

     -Finite comeuppance,

     -Proportionally

     -Imparted 

     -Chest, arms, hand;

Arrived, departed,

Z scale boxcars hauled

Magnified,

Mortal freight,

     -Brutal space supplied

     -For miniscule limbs

     -Assembled

     -In fashion;

Guided scrutiny

Picked through buried trash,

Declared finds

Lost treasures,

     -Mise en scene smoked through

     -Cigarettes, ashes

     -Collected

     -In foam cups;

Fourth wall interlude,

Afterimages 

Imposed third

Degree burns,

     -Village, hinterland,

     -Stonewall rioters

     -Repulsed with

     -Projectiles;

Safety pins, razors,

Pricked, sliced, skin; black boots, 

Leather belts,

Lashed eyebrows;

     -Overturned trash cans,

     -Garbage, bottles, rocks,

     -Construction

     -Site bricks winged;

Hustler's bulging, black

Jeans solicited 

Johns, against

Building wall;

     -Bouncer at peephole

     -Eyed would-be patrons,

     -Nervously

     -Stalled by door;

Punk rock trio stood

At CBGB

Entrance, begged

Engagement,

     -Cash for drink tickets-

     -No liquor license-

     -Black walls, black

     -Lights, dance floors;

Candid shot, three males

Pissed, spaced apart, at

Porcelain

Urinals,

     -No running water,

     -No fire exits,

     -The toilets

     -Overflowed;

David Johansen,

Richard Hell photo

Op, backstage

Performance,

     -Gayola payoffs,

     -Wall Street employees

     -Blackmailed by

     -Mafia;

Man Ray's official

Passport reproduced

Over two,

Clean pages,

     -Lined up, carded, cops

     -Threatened pictures for

     -Newspaper

     -Publishing;

Lance Loud in profile

At boudoir mirror,

Vogue covered,

Crouching male,

     -Effeminate men,

     -Men dressed in full drag,

     -Arrested,

     -Taken out;

Divine, movie star,

Interviewed next to

Director, 

John Waters,

     -Handcuffed woman, hit

     -With baton, asked crowd,

     -'Why don't you...

     -Do something?'

 16 January 2021