John Singer Sargent, American-British
A Visit To The Procrastitute, ca. 1880-82
Oil on canvas
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MASTERPIECE #2957
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/// It began on a back street in Venice.
He spoke low in a voice filled with menace.
“The deed I wish to do
requires two— me and you!”
She replied, “You mean tango, or tennis?”
/// They next met in Rome’s famed Colosseum,
where girls go so their clients can see ‘em.
He inquired, “Lovely flower,
what’s the charge for an hour?”
She replied that her pay was per diem.
/// Later met at a club in Milano,
(although, oddly, they both were Chicano).
They got into a fight
about spending the night,
and they settled it mano a mano.
/// They last met in a pub in Trieste
where they guzzled Campari with zest.
Soon she found herself plastered,
and the cheap horny bastard
wouldn’t pay though he’d fondled her breast.
/// Redjack lurked on a Whitechapel street
sizing up each lone woman he’d meet.
He preferred foggy nights
for his bloody “delights,”
but this victim was temptingly sweet.