Wojciech Weiss, Polish
“It’s From the Neighbors. They Say the Walls Are Thin and They Have Small Children, So They’d Appreciate It If We Kept It Down, Blah Blah Blah…,” 1913
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (archived if necessary), here, here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), here (Google translated), here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated Polish Wikipedia page has more).
/// Stanislaw was convinced he’d succeed
at obtaining her half of the deed.
His wife shortly would sign
her name there. Bottom line?
Wife Maria had not learned to read.
/// To pay for his many romances,
Stanislaw concentrates on finances.
Hopes to mortgage their house.
Thinks he’s fooling his spouse,
but she reads him, with insightful glances.
/// In their youth she won Stanislaw’s heart.
They shared interests in theatre and art.
But as soon as they merged
what they wanted diverged,
until now they are both Poles apart.
/// “Nosy neighbors hear cries of emotion,
but apparently haven’t a notion
that top agents like me
who work for FSB
could slip them a Novichok potion.”