Samuel S. Carr, American
She Sells Vitamin C To Swells Down By the Seashore, 1877
Oil on canvas
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/// Doing drug deals outside in plain sight
using children as “mules” isn’t right.
Buy an orange, you’ll find
that inside of its rind
is a powder— suspiciously white.
/// Her Pa’s hooked on that high “coked-up” feeling
so he sent his young daughter out dealing.
Her Ma would go reeling
and then hit the ceiling
to learn why peeling fruit is appealing.
/// Couples stroll fully clothed on the beach
as a young girl comes by to beseech,
“Buy some oranges, sir?”
He says, “No, I’d prefer
a papaya, a plum, or a peach.”
/// The wife asks for her man to have pity
on the fruit seller, and to admit he
had worked up a big thirst,
(midday heat was the worst).
There’s no fruit this sweet back in the city.
/// Helen’s hubby responds, saying he
could cool off if they’d wade in the sea.
Remove each shoe and stocking,
and then (this part is shocking),
roll their garments up over the knee.
/// Modern viewers would likely suggest
that these people are all overdressed
for a stroll by the sea,
but it’s seventy-three
degrees now as sun sets in the west.