Charles Baugniet, Belgian
“I Had Planned To End Your Interview By Asking Where You Saw Yourself in 10 Years. But the Fact We Live in a Class-Based Society Where Upward Mobility Is a Pipe Dream Kinda Takes the Fun Out of It,” 1881
Oil on panel
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/// Lady Wyrmanger revels in sin.
Foes compete to see who’ll “do her in.”
So she plotted a ruse
to, her rivals, confuse:
Out in public she’s switched with a “twin.”
/// Since her ladyship’s always in trouble,
she is hiring a new body double.
The last one fled in fear.
An assassin came near;
close enough, on “her” cheeks, to see stubble.
/// Though the same height and equally pale,
her last decoy was destined to fail.
Lest she have to abandon
her plans for a stand-in,
she will not, this time, hire a male.
/// At her in-person job application
Hulde’s Letter of Recommendation
was read out in her sight
in the hope that it might
help explain her last job’s termination.
/// When the note proved she hadn’t been fired,
her next mistress said, “OK, you’re hired.”
She had quit on her own
feeling scorned and alone;
teased because of the way she’s attired.
/// They were hiring a woman to clean,
and yet Hulde wore red, white and green.
A subliminal clue
to what she’d rather do:
Be a cook of Italian cuisine.
/// Because Madame had sneered when she read
Marie’s reference, she wished the bitch dead.
And the handbag of wicker
(which had made Madame snicker)
later on held Madame’s severed head.