Enoch Wood Perry, Jr., American
Too Shy To Talk To Her Plants Herself, Astrid Was Forced To Resort To Sock Puppets, 1876
Watercolor, gouache, and gum arabic on off-white wove paper
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/// Susan has A Month’s Darning to do.
In the past there’d been only a few,
but her basket’s piled high
because Sue’s clueless guy
walks in socks without wearing a shoe.
/// Fewer socks to mend had been her goal,
but they’re threadbare at both heel and sole.
And the fact that he fails
to trim long ragged nails
ensures each stocking’s toe has a hole.
/// Potted plants fill up window sill spaces,
and, no doubt, she keeps flowers in vases.
Perry’s previous painting
here had “headless” men fainting.
Now we know he can paint lovely faces.
/// “Sock it to me!” was Laugh In‘s suggestion
they were naughty, but brought indigestion
when the person who said it,
(did he live to regret it?)
was Dick Nixon, in form of a question.