Edward Hopper, American
“Sorry For the Delay On Those Burgers, Folks. We’re Usually Not This Slammed,” 1942
Oil on canvas
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MASTERPIECE #2904
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here (mainly for its biographical, audio and video links), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page.
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/// These four Nighthawks together are shown
in a diner, yet each seems alone.
An interior, bright,
on a dark street at night.
The scene’s eerie, a weird Twilight Zone.
/// It evokes that we’re all doomed to die.
Then an alien fell from the sky.
It was tracked to this place
where they came face-to-face
with the counterman and his third eye.
/// The two newlyweds first learned to fear
creepy diners when, one day last year,
for a one penny cost
they had nearly been lost
buying fortunes from hell’s Mystic Seer.
/// And the guy by himself has a plan:
Fly with aliens to space when he can
translate something he took
from their saucer— a book
which is titled, he’d learned, “To Serve Man.”