Ludwig August Most, Polish
When “Creepy Ed” Showed Up With Flowers for the Fifth Day in a Row, Sheila Realized She Should Probably Start Looking at Second-Story Apartments, 1850
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Google translated German Wikipedia page.
/// He’s a master at fashioning wood
into objects she’d told him were good.
Drop-leaf table and chest,
spinning wheel and the rest,
but her feelings he’d misunderstood.
/// Skills at woodworking were a surprise
for which he gained esteem in her eyes.
Dislike started to dwindle
when she sat on a spindle.
(It was just the right shape, girth and size.)
/// At her window each morn Szymon had her.
Forced to chat, which just made her feel sadder.
So he stands there today
with a proffered bouquet.
Maja wished he had not built that ladder.
/// Szymon’s sixty, while Maja’s still young.
She has dreams of love. To them she’s clung.
She’s not willing to settle.
“I must be on my mettle.
For tomorrow I’ll weaken a rung.”