Frank Xavier Leyendecker, German/American
Scene From the New Edwardian Age “Breaking Bad” Re-Boot, 1910
Oil on canvas
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MASTERPIECE #3104
no matter how hard he tried frank could not improve on martha’s meatloaf recipe.
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (archived if necessary), here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page.
/// Note the time as a test tube is heated;
the experiment still not completed.
Doc Pugh needed to know
why reactions were slow.
Watched his watch while the whole thing’s repeated.
/// They’re distilling the blood of a crab
to create a vaccine they can jab.
No success for eight years,
then, the thing Doc most fears—
a rogue virus escapes from their lab!!
/// Now, the primary thing they must do
is ensure no one blames Doctor Pugh.
That first crab was a carrier
‘cross the beast-human barrier,
of what Pugh plans to call “Spanish Flu.”
/// Pugh’s in Kansas, the U. S. of A.
while The Great War’s guns still blaze away.
“To avoid a polemic
when we dub this pandemic,
name a nation that’s neutral, OK?”
/// All the countries at war have suppressed
news of thousands of deaths, so none guessed
where it really began.
In Spain, news reports ran,
so Spain wrongly got blamed for the pest.
/// Disease origins can be obscure,
yet some zealots will claim to be sure
that they know where it’s from,
(and all doubters are dumb).
Their concern is with cause more than cure.
/// Petri dishes for growth was the norm,
but they’ll take any port in a storm.
That white basin contains
virus growing in brains.
Also, prions— (the brain’s spongiform).
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/// Today’s painting was done as an ad
for a pocket watch (pre-cellphone fad).
He is timing how long
‘til the heating goes wrong
and his fingers get burned pretty bad.