Jack Balas, 2023: THE GANG SHOWERS (#2391)
India ink on paper, 30x22 inches

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Died and gone to heaven is how my cowboy buddy Curt described the gang showers at 5:30, days when the wrestlers came into the lockers or the hockey team or a visiting football team. A squeeze of jocks under every nozzle, perfect muscle, laughing, shouting, throwing those little bars of soap, peeing on each other, even a chub here or there. Curt and me, we made sure to always be finishing our workout by then, and one day

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