RANDALL MANN–TAGGED

RANDALL MANN

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                                                                        i.m. Kevin Killian

 

The flowers never wilt.

The gallerist, a brute.

Kevin flips his phone

into a crystal flute.

 

We order pay-per-view,

a short by Kenneth Anger.

I doff my undershirt

and eye a wire hanger.

 

I’ll see him by the cache.

I’ll do as I am told.

And when he frames, I freeze—

the center cannot fold.

 

The sheet is haute couture.

He wears the latest taste.

The choker, little pearls—

like us, he says, of paste.