Karl Ernst Papf, Brazilian
Looking Back at Old Family Photos, There Were Unmistakable Clues As To Which Child Would One Day Become an ENT, 1886
Oil on canvas
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/// Three grim Children exert their control
with their gaze boring deep in your soul.
Fourth will cast his spell, too,
just as soon as he’s through
checking out that suspicious new mole.
/// These four mutes share a weird psychic bond.
Proof, their Mom’s say, they came “from beyond.”
Townsfolk weren’t convinced
‘til, with bleach they all rinsed,
and each child became albino blond.
/// The small Village of Midwich is where
you’d find Children with silver-blond hair.
Should they be so inclined,
they can read through your mind
and then kill with their glowing-eyed stare.
/// Their four mothers got pregnant one night
when the sky filled with eldritch green light.
They each claimed that the birth
Dad was not of this Earth
while their husbands all answered, “Yeah… right.”
/// When her child doesn’t look like the “Dad,”
at the Mom, her man may become mad.
Blame a horny Greek god
or an alien pod,
as excuse that she did nothing bad.
/// Suppose hubby’s been two years at sea.
How’d that cute newborn babe come to be?
To avoid a huge fight
she has Gospels to cite:
“Who’s to say that didn’t happen to me?”