BlueprintFaster than you can marry, you are dying. The windmill says 12:01. A new day. Maybe. Soon there will be a map of all human chromosomes A votre santé. A red-neck gay bar. Salud. This trade has a shag, asks for a light. This john is red, drunk & asks me down. Down where? O, Dorian, in the Chinese chest where the fabric should have been, there was the body of a man: twenty year old intruder with a three year old bullet in his head like a third eye, wrapped in saran wrap, & not in gold lamé, dusted with white baking soda, not with silver glitter & not smelling of ³Evening in Paris². Coincidence? We think not there was a note: ³Upstaged by Dorian Corey², she wrote, ³the movie star². Football, Monday night, on t.v. & K.D. Lang on the juke box Three lives. Three wishes. I wish for a boyfriend with a cowlick & a dog. Not really. The bar is filling up with guys in size 13 beige pumps & camel blazers with perfect manicures, & baby boomers in guess? jeans & New York Rangers bomber jackets & big, cut-glass diamond pinky rings. No one like me, whatever that is. Years ago, closing a place hitting the street, looking up, I saw, I thought I saw, Dorian Corey in her yellow feather coat at dawn, but it was only the sun. Now the bartender buys my second drink. He¹s young enough to be my boyfriend, but he smokes, and I can¹t stay here until 4. William, my friend, remember one Sunday afternoon when it was snowing, when we sat here in Julius¹, when we thought there was a world, when we imagined a world, & the Employees Must Wash Hands sign didn¹t seem ominous & Miss Thing was always funny? Dorian/the stiff/ the blow-job/the trade/ the score: you pick. ³ A complete genetic blueprint for a human being may contain flaws²- (New York Times, December 16 1993) Handsome young football players on the screen seem to kiss through their chin-guards. Giants vs. Saints. Cautionary Viewing Advised. Saint Dorian. Saint Dorian. ³Night, Bill² ³Night, Dale² ³You¹re the best² ³Dry as his ass² ³How would you know?² ³Read my lips² Laughter all around.
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