Mark Sargent Models for Kenneth Patchen |
by Mark Sargent |
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? Mark Sargent Special to the Corpse from The Past: PAINTED BY PATCHEN
“Keep still now,” Ken murmured as he dipped his brush in water, then tempera and brought it to my face. I was on a stool pushed close to his bed and with the length of the brush he could easily reach my flesh. A smoke dangled always from his lips, the opened carton of Picayunes I had brought lay on the covers. Heavy strokes of yellow down my neck, vermilion chest, burnt orange eyeballs, magenta spotted tongue, “I’m making you into an angel who is a laughing dog so full of tears he might burst all over the place and us without our water-wings or anything vaguely inflatable.” He winced, set down his brush, sank against the pillows and said, “When you bark, make it a little people music.” Miriam entered, gave him a shot and his eyes closed with relief. She took the cig from his mouth and stubbed it out.
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