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Reaching across table.  Grasping empty plate.  Carrying armfuls of dishes piled high, food scraps, silverware.  Vanishing.  Returning.  Cleaning table.  Setting up.  Next customer.  Invisible.  Ignored.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Roy Hoggard artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Roy Hoggard artist

 

Slipping items off table into purse.  Eyes meeting.  Flower vase, salt & pepper shakers, sugar packets.  Looking down.  Seeing breasts through gap in blouse.  Stealing look.  Smiling.  Mute.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

 

Cups, saucers, silverware, plates clinking, crashing, clanging, cracking.

Listening.  Stories.  Jobs.  Bosses.  Coworkers.  Neighbors.  Secrets.  Freaky.  Rear Window.  Stop.

Men.  Gossiping.  Discussing.  News.  Opinions.  Each other.  The usual.

Girl arriving.  Front door.  Bright sunlight, dress transparent.  Men laughing.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Marjorie Whittig artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Marjorie Whittig artist

 

Shutting door.

Cleaning toilets.  Gross.  Sick.  Mopping.  Sanitizing.  Safe.

Watching.  Lovers kissing.  Things happening.  Under table.  Stop.  Shaking head.  Walking away.

Whispering.  Please.  Talese.  Not that hotel.  Stop.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

 

Dumping trash.  Emptying grease.  Cleaning this.  Cleaning that.

Speaking.  Changing with the wind.

Public voice.  Private voice.  Phone voice, friend voice, stranger voice.

Summoning.  Ordering.  Waiting.  Receiving.  Complaining.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Jack Haye artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Jack Haye artist

 

Do this.  Do that.  Yes sir.  Yes ma’am.  Sure boss.  Sure cook.  Sure waiter, waitress. Sure kid.

Entering.  Impatient.  Blocking, bumping, demanding.

Bringing stuff.  Own booze.  Own food.  Pouring, mixing, making.

Shouting, laughing, screaming, crying.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Roy Hoggard artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Roy Hoggard artist

 

Leaving.

Left behind.  Snot rags, bandaids, toothpicks, chewing gum, matchbooks, envelopes, hair, blood, expired phone cards, empty pens, old tickets, crumpled papers, doddles, buttons, empty packages, fuzz balls, maps, guides, newspapers, phone numbers, addresses, bugs, paper bags, notes, business cards, to-go containers, baby food packets, coats, hats, phones, lists, pill bottles, rotten fruit, fingernails, floss, unwanted candy, plastic bags, bibles, books, packing material … tips not shared.

Flailing.  Epileptic attack.  Spoon in mouth.  Waking.  Dazed.  No memory.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, C.W. artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, C.W. artist

 

Sending signals.  Body language.  Eyebrows, hands, fingers, arms, shoulders, necks, heads, legs, feet.  Telltale signs.  Detecting.  Table manners.  Public face.  Private face.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Roy Hoggard artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Roy Hoggard artist

 

Relating.  Updike.  Eyes, mouth, lips, tongue, nose, ears, torso, torture, piercing, being.  Punishing.  Stop.

Throwing.  Spoiled child.  No stopping.  Vacuuming.  Repeating.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Jack Haye artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Jack Haye artist

 

Reflection.  Window.  Looking.  Straightening hair, shirt, pants, skirt.  Applying lipstick.

Food smears.  Food stuck.  Mouth, face, teeth, hands, clothes.  Pull out.  Wash up.  Clean off.  Leave on floor.

Reading newspaper.  Sipping coffee.  Oblivious.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, W.A.H. artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, W.A.H. artist

 

Drunk.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Sandra Lindstrom artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Sandra Lindstrom artist

 

Sleeping.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

 

Depressed.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

 

Starry eyed.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

 

Writing.  Drawing.  Making lists.

Buying.  Selling.  Legal.  Illegal.

Arguing.

Posturing, positioning, propositioning.

Business, sports, people, politics, religion.

Dropping names.

Planning.  Today.  Tonight.  Tomorrow.

Chatting.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, artist unknown

 

Parents, spouses, girlfriends, boyfriends.

Pain in the ass.  Stab in the back.  Slap in the face.  Kick in the shins.

Nothing ever happens.

Ending.  Bang.  Whimper.

Turning and turning.

Laughing.  Singing.  Entering, mascara smears on face, stinking of urine.

Out, damned spot!  Out, I say!

A walking shadow.

Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah.

 

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Efroym artist

Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art, Efroym artist