Enoch Wood Perry, Jr., American
The Downside of Using Models You Find Through the Witness Protection Program, ca. 1845-60
Oil on canvas
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/// From their posture they aren’t well-bred.
They don’t sit straight, they all sprawl instead.
The newspaper one read
has this message unsaid:
“TRUE AMERICAN Can’t Get a Head.”
/// Five figures feign decapitation,
(while a sixth attempts defenestration).
Look with care all around
for the horse and the hound,
who both share this “no head “ mutilation.
/// So just what is this painting depicting?
With real life, what it shows is conflicting.
They exhibit their rears,
but no brains, eyes or ears.
IDIOCRACY Perry’s predicting.
/// They were born in a time and a place
when uniqueness could bring one disgrace.
You must never be caught
with an unapproved thought.
To express it will make you lose face.
/// Here’s their problem: These people all lacked
sense to know what’s opinion, what’s fact.
Is it true? They don’t know;
only that it seems so.
How they feel governs how they react.
/// Evil cynics will lie to maintain
their control over folks they disdain.
The lies these folks hear
stoke their rage and their fear.
Triumph of the reptilian brain!