Install

iv

white primer on drywall

hooks in the converted

tackle box wax gum levels

wire sticky palm gloves

blades nails odds n ends

string screws matches

pretend like you give a shit

dude’d say as the truck

pulls away from the dock

after a drag on a Kool

menthol from behind

his shades dispatch on CB

the Thomas Guide got us

there to LACMA MOCA

Norton Simon the Getty head

on a swivel down Rodeo

Drive stop for a Mocha &

a smoke in Beverly Hills

measure 57 from the floor

use low tack blue masking

tape to make your mark half

the painting’s vertical dim

subtract to the cable & hang.

space. repeat. til the show’s up

at the end of the shift at

the end of the day after

the load out the bubble wrap

blankets straps stashed

in the amber LA afternoon

sore sweaty hungry thirsty

before the godawful commute

you ponder Yves Klein Blue

the portrait of George Washington

a Basquiat or John Singer

Sargent or some other treasure

you got to hold in your two hands