Gunnar Berndtson, Swedish-Finnish
Don’t Let Seasonal Allergies Ruin YOUR Daughter’s Special Day. Ask Your Doctor About Zyrtec™, 1881
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here (Google translated), here (Bing translated), and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Finnish Wikipedia page has more).
/// Though once one of the great financiers,
the bride’s song brought her father to tears.
Weeping didn’t diminish
as she got to the Finnish.
He is bankrupt and now in arrears.
/// All his last fiscal hopes he had pinned
on her singing, but now he’s chagrined.
The bride’s terrible pitch
made the banquet guests twitch.
It was clear she was no Jennie Lind.
/// With much vodka he’d been fortified,
to put up a good front to the bride.
Into Hell he would sink
after one final drink.
Saw no exit… except suicide.