Albrecht Frans Lieven De Vriendt, Belgian
Count Baldwin II, Cleanup Hitter for the Antwerp Astros, 1889
Oil on canvas
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/// The famed Flemish Count, Baldwin the Second,
never spoke his wife’s name; he just beckoned.
Ælfthryth was his mate,
(born to Alfred the Great).
Unpronounceable, but she was fecund.
/// Baldwin’s grandfather had been installed
as the Emperor called Charles the Bald.
Baldwin wants to decide
how his foes will have died:
perhaps stabbed or beheaded or mauled.
/// Underneath Baldwin’s outer attire
is the full armor fighters require.
But, at times it was wise
to approach in disguise,
No huge weapons, hood up— as a Friar.
/// “When I tell you, (you’ll claim I was drunk),
just who knocked me out cold with a thunk!
I awoke the next dawn
with my horse and gold gone.
‘Twas a seven-foot-tall armored monk!”