"Flouncing About" — Text By Clint Catalyst; Narration By Pauley Perrette
featuring the aural fixations/visual manipulations of P. Emerson Williams, the artwork of--& special appearance by Joshua Petker, & portrayals by Dirk Mai & Julia Romanenko
(a note):
† "Flouncing About" is the companion piece
for "Pained and Painted" †
&
here's the accompanying
.. : text : ..
FLOUNCING ABOUT
like a spotlit
cartoon, he's a moment he's
a move-
ment of the slack
jawed smooth
syllabled character he becomes
spouting carefully oiled
phrases out eleven p.m. dead
alive and half awake enough
to brush his teeth with crystal
meth with entourage of
gnats and flies for a fan Club
Boy flexes a smile wide
as a billboard shiny
synthetic and white as asbestos
stirred up, mainlined
prepped right
out of the can because
life is like a
bare-boned rig, he
says so
he'll just grit his
teeth and take it, fake
it till he makes it: Club
Boy's latest con-
versation with mirrors, his bulls-
eyed pupils breathe tales of old
friends smeared together, strangers
now as he looks
at himself foam green some
preface with "sea" color
coordinated clothing and feels
like a bad trans-
lation his expression
hangs like a prisoner in
the bathroom's cadaverous
silence a
growling throb in
the back of his
throat across
a filmy Aqua
Net hairsprayed ex-
panse staring at
this molded plastic
torso why
am I here? he asks
what am I
doing? but in comes
a falsetto cloud of
queens and on blares
the music the
lullaby of small talk, gossip
and complaints he
tickets a Long Island Tea the
answer sticks in
his frigid
sublet flesh no
way to squint away
how much is real how
much is calculated
for effect
—Clint Catalyst
from the book Cottonmouth Kisses [Manic D]
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Comment by maggie@littleepisodes on February 9, 2010 at 3:05am - I'm slow to get on board initially, but quick to react when I do, as usual... ;) This is wonder-full!, and one of my fave CK pieces :D What's real behind the mask, indeed. And how long can you put off that question? Mx
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Comment by Lucie Natasha Barat on February 5, 2010 at 4:26pm - that's wicked! I've got a fantasy of an LE poetry MTV channel...
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