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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