Workshop

Randall Mann

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Now that your third shift
at the workshop is done,
tick the box, let’s begin.

You have before you one
blood-splattered fur;
dry ice and a sewer grate;

the epistemology of scorn;
and all the stays you can burn.
What would Karl Lagerfeld do? Vampirize.

Time to start smoking;
time for breakfast, Tic Tacs
and hello yellow meth.

In this light, the face always cracks,
this laptop light, this last-night
ilikekink.com light.

There are six hours left on the clock.
It will get a little hard to take.
And don’t forget to rake

every black-tipped
prophylactic
from the catwalk.