Agustin Arrieta, Mexican
Mother Serving Her Famous Roast Turkey with Toothpaste Globs, 1833
Oil on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: #639 (8/15/11)
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here (Google Chrome can try to automatically translate if necessary; using Google or Bing translators with other browsers both currently fail), and here, perhaps in addition to what's in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Spanish Wikipedia page has more).
/// Of that tilt in her head there’s a rumor.
It puts blame on a back-of-neck tumor.
But an alternate cause
cites the breaking of laws.
Is it true, or some sick gallows humor?
/// Of the “accident” nobody spoke,
but we guessed when she cracked a small joke.
She’d been sentenced to croak
and had started to choke,
but had lived when the hangman’s rope broke.