Onstage the panel host,
a young woman
(dyed blonde waves,
strappy top that she periodically adjusts),
adores (with exposed wrists,
pressed-out lips, uptipped chin,
crossed ankles)
three awkward, scruffy, peculiar, camp old men
Proximity: the poet Jackson. Get uncomfortably close.
Onstage the panel host,
a young woman
(dyed blonde waves,
strappy top that she periodically adjusts),
adores (with exposed wrists,
pressed-out lips, uptipped chin,
crossed ankles)
three awkward, scruffy, peculiar, camp old men