Winslow Homer, American
Milkmaid and Cow, Neither Willing to Apologize for Yesterday, 1878
Watercolor
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page.
/// Elsie’s man had been out the whole night.
Came home scratched red, and bled from a bite.
Claimed that crossing this field
a scared girl had appealed
for his help with a bull he must fight.
/// The beast gored him, and that’s why he’s gory.
Then he passed out unconscious and swore he
woke at dawn (heard the rooster),
so he’d never seduced her.
Elsie thought: “That’s a Cock’n’Bull story.”
/// Though her man seems to think she’s a fool,
Elsie carries a pail and her stool.
She’ll get fresh eggs and milk
in a dress made of silk.
(Not what dairy maids wear, as a rule.)
/// She had put on her very best gown
because later she’s going to town
where she’s hoping to track
where her man “hit the sack”
and the girl with whom he’d bedded down.
/// Elsie knew that she just had to check
on the tramp who had set out to wreck
her life with her man,
and this was her plan:
Match her teeth to that “bite” on his neck.
/// It says here that the painter was “Homer.”
Yellow man who’s a cross-over comber?
Simpson isn’t the smartest,
and he’s artwork, not artist.
(The name “Winslow” must be a misnomer.)