Jean Alaux, French
A) Couple Having Staring Contest, 1818
B) Couple Having Staring Contest (3 Hours Later), 1818
Oil on canvas
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/// Fleur returned to the doorway to spy
on that strangely unmoving young guy.
A “Performance Art” show,
or waxwork by Tussaud?
Is he paralyzed, and, if so, why?
/// He is clutching a fine violin,
but has not raised it up to his chin.
Fleur, in time, turns and goes
to, again, change her clothes.
(Maybe next time she’ll show him more skin.)
/// Hours have passed, and the sun’s going down.
The musician, a man of renown,
may stay put overnight.
But she’d swoon from sheer fright
if he made a move, (heading downtown).
/// Fleur had run out of clothes which are clean.
From afar, the stains might not be seen.
But she had to confess,
she felt uncleanliness
was both “godless” and somewhat obscene.
/// Fleur returned to that door the next day
freshly scrubbed, with her charms on display.
Hoping he’d be impressed,
she had not gotten dressed,
but her quarry had now gone away.
/// This development was so unfair!
Fleur was dizzy and leaned on the chair.
“Where’ve you gone to, mon cher?”
(He’d not left, she would swear.)
And she thought, “Had he really been there?”
/// Ronnie stood in plain sight on that spot.
What she spied on did not get her hot.
And the man being viewed
wasn’t kinky or nude.
It would seem a voyeur she is not.