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Susan Gangel


PAINTINGS: Stakeout Series 29-31


(29)

Spin cycle confounds the maiden
Saplings in the snow
NO ONE CALLED US BACK
Wire treads in a rubber wheel casing
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp  You should go now
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp  Watch her as she tugs at his sleeve

(30)

Nothing equals itself again
Scary welts on the fake torso
WE TOLD HER WE WERE SORRY
Wiggling around in the underbrush
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp  High heels in different shades of red
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp  Watch her as she runs for the bus


(31)

All scratched up from picking berries
Seesaws wacked out of gumption
GIVE ME MY CHANGE, DICK
Formulaic enterprises have him baffled
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp  I’m saying he had no idea
&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp  Watch her as she messes up her lines



Susan Gangel lives in San Francisco, often collaborating with Kit Kennedy in her blog poetrybites, and with Terry Turrentine on vispo and photography book projects. She runs the chapparal gallery in Silver City, New Mexico. Her work appears in Otoliths, demon-dolls, sf peace and hope, and drag race signage.

Other pieces from this series have appeared across a number of earlier issues of Otoliths.
 
 
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