Rembrandt Peale, American
He’d Had a String of Disastrous Relationships With Rose, Lily, and Fern, But the Botanist Was Confident That Things Would Go Better With Geri, 1801
Oil on canvas
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/// Rubens Peale poses with a Geranium,
in a pot made of pitchblende (uranium).
The plant, radioactive,
must find Rubens attractive,
for its tendrils are piercing his cranium.
/// In an effort to see with precision,
he’d changed glasses, a fateful decision.
The plant came from behind,
where he’s virtually blind.
Rubens has no peripheral vision.
/// The plant’s fluids now flow through his brain.
Rubens thinks, “For the first time I’m sane.”
His right hand’s middle digit
in the soil starts to fidget,
and infuses its roots with cocaine.
/// Their planned wedding had barely begun,
when Phil told his plant bride they were “done.”
At the minister’s urgin’
Phil proposed to a virgin.
Some olive oil. (Additives? None!)