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                           Chas (II)

/ArtBook/Chas2-sketch.jpgI don't generally have my friends say
"Hey Fergus I'll model for you
then you can paint me
like then one ofm you in your studio."
It's not a very good painting
But I love it, look at it each time I telephone
and have found, there are people around
who think it's disgusting and sordid to have
balls and a cock —
under the fireman's hose thunderstorm
arc of water from the link in the gutter
I soap up —
They want want me to chop the bottom two inches off.
          There's just then light from the heater
          and my reading light on the floor
          and Chas reaches up to rub his left eye
          by the 1954 record cover of Lady Sings The Blues
          through our cigarello haze
          his shadowy left shoulder
          arc
          challenging with Graham and Bernard and Gerard
          our fear of backrubs
          It being not okey to be
          sensual.

 
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1992-96   acrylic on hardboard   2100 x 900mm