INDECENCY

          

           So it is no surprise that, finally, Stewart Galenza
       A determined and determining god of potboiler
       Resolutions and fates, should change the encounter between
       His Duelle and his equally fantastic Queen Mona
       From a hate-lust cat-fight (lesbian sex so safe, he thought)
       Into an amicable meeting (in a hotel-lounge
       Or cheap café, whatever, who cared) of ‘matching’ angels
       Entertaining and plotting new strategies for ‘saving
       The world’, from its injustices, with mischief of their own
       Righteousness.

                                              *

                              Which one was Good and which Evil no longer
       Mattered:  Stew even designed two new uniforms for them:
       Naked Duelle got herself inked into a black pants-suit
       And Queen Mona dumbed down into blue-and-pink underwear
       Which Superwoman herself wouldn’t have been caught dead in.

                                              ~

         But despite the cowardly kitsch of Stew’s graphicnovel,
       We can see how his pussyfooting flatfooted approach
       To depicting issues of female power and desire
       And transgression led him to tilt beyond the simplistic
       And simple-minded duality of Good/Bad fictions
       - His enemy, his own dulled mind, become the sharp ally

                                                                  *

       Not that Stew would have admitted to caring anything
       About ‘duality’, ‘spirituality’ and such:
       After all, he was a no-shit Allbirdy boy (though born
       In repressed München of Polish-Portuguese parentage),
       And it was years, thank God, since he had been an altar-boy

      (from  *fatima solagua arterra’s nudes* by Brian Chan, 2015)