Frans Vervloet, Belgian
“My Apologies For Breaking Wind at the Table, Folks. I’m Just Going To Go Burn My Pants and This Chair and I’ll Be Back For Dessert,” 1816
Oil on panel
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/// Everyone who’d been there would recall
years from now, that it all started small.
Muttered insults. A swear.
Then he picked up a chair.
Threw it— starting the first barroom brawl.
/// He would boast of his criminal spree
and of being a jail escapee.
Causing pain and despair,
that’s why he got the chair.
(Also, murder in the first degree.)
/// He’s confronting the girl just to mock her,
so it isn’t that much of a shocker,
or even a stunner.
He broke off each runner
and stands— clearly off of his rocker.