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Randall Mann
Halston
Halston
Halston
He kept his middle name, the pick of the lot,
he thought, and mispronounced himself: Hall-stun.
At Bergdorf’s he acquired an accent and referred
to himself in the third person, every bird he flayed
wrapped in Ultrasuede. He lit a True with a True,
smeared his hirsute muse with sequins. There were air-
kisses, Capote’s new-cut face at Studio 54, that Baccarat
flute of ejaculate. Never too late, he ordered in
meat and potatoes, and a trick.
He called it “dial-a-steak, dial-a-dick.” He appeared
on The Love Boat, Halstonettes in tow,
maybe the high, maybe the low, watermark.
When his pupils betrayed him at work, on came the shades.
And a well-cut blazer, paranoia. He had signed away
the rights to his name, for options. When he tried
to reclaim them from the conglomerate,
he excused himself to the toilet, just a sec —
white dust on a black turtleneck.
His block started to look a lot like sickness.
Even his beloved orchids, the sickness.
Just like that, the eighties were gone.
New York, New York, the eighties were no one.
© 2013, Randall Mann
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Halston
He kept his middle name, the pick of the lot,
he thought, and mispronounced himself: Hall-stun.
At Bergdorf’s he acquired an accent and referred
to himself in the third person, every bird he flayed
wrapped in Ultrasuede. He lit a True with a True,
smeared his hirsute muse with sequins. There were air-
kisses, Capote’s new-cut face at Studio 54, that Baccarat
flute of ejaculate. Never too late, he ordered in
meat and potatoes, and a trick.
He called it “dial-a-steak, dial-a-dick.” He appeared
on The Love Boat, Halstonettes in tow,
maybe the high, maybe the low, watermark.
When his pupils betrayed him at work, on came the shades.
And a well-cut blazer, paranoia. He had signed away
the rights to his name, for options. When he tried
to reclaim them from the conglomerate,
he excused himself to the toilet, just a sec —
white dust on a black turtleneck.
His block started to look a lot like sickness.
Even his beloved orchids, the sickness.
Just like that, the eighties were gone.
New York, New York, the eighties were no one.
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