Drawing for Absolute Beginners

Take any desired height, or place points for top of head and heels. Divide into eights. . . . 8.  Head tilted back between the headboard slats. Eyes glass boxes filling up with light. Later, drained to a blue-gray, the color of good government. 7.  Thus, we see that commodification is a function of local necessity. a.  As Angelenos collect percolating shade in shallow pans, to leach the arsenic out of the light. b.  “And then I buried it.” “Where, exactly? And when?” “In the chest. Insertion point at the base of the throat. You were still asleep.” “But what is it, exactly? I mean, I can’t figure out its precise extent. I mean, I can feel it there sometimes, like stitches, or sometimes like a flanged or branching bone.” 6.  Cross-hatchings of street noise and the Minotaur with his boy’s body. Narrowing. Rib cage the verge of a canoe. Armpit a whiff of pencil lead. 5.  “If you want to fuck me with that bottle, Mr. Arbuckle, best take the foil off first.” 4.osculation: a.  The act of kissing. A kiss. b.Math. A point where two branches of a curve have a common tangent and extend in both directions of the tangent. c.  To the ankles. Or to the knees. Or just unzipped enough. 3.  Charmeuse chemise. A shuddering fall. Miss Adelaide Hall on the chaise longue singing I ain’t much caring / Just where I willend. Then jerked upright, skirt hiked to the knee, that bridge stretching out under every skip-step. Slaphappy scat-puppet of the fixed smile, the meanwhile,Ain’t got nobody to love now. 2.  The bone begging bowl. The foot that pushed it away. 1.  “I want to leave you exactly as I found you.”