Auguste Serrure, Belgian
While the Neighbors Weren’t Thrilled About Edmund’s 5:00 a.m. Sousaphone Practices, It WAS an Improvement Over the Bongos, 1853
Oil on canvas
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/// While the Countess, a beautiful heiress,
lounges languidly out on a terrace.
The Concert her consort
plays ain’t the “Salon sort.”
She’s aware that himself he’d embarrass.
/// Though he’s practiced the French Horn for years,
he performs where nobody else hears.
When he blows, a vein bulges,
yet the Countess indulges
her beloved. (And plugs up her ears.)
/// Odbert can’t watch folks watching him play.
He’ll perform if he’s facing away.
He had long ago learned
that his horn playing earned
painful looks of chagrin and dismay.
/// The good Countess has lied to her man.
Gives him all of the praise that she can.
She knows music’s his life,
and, as his loving wife,
she‘s his biggest (in fact, only) fan!
/// That she loves Odbert’s Concert’s a fable,
but she’ll tell it as long as she’s able.
True, his music’s all wrong,
but he’s virile and strong,
so he brings other things to the table.
/// Have some pity for sweltering Beth,
who imagines she’s broiling to death.
Ronald’s cooling device,
(a French Horn packed with ice),
blows cool air tinged with Ron’s garlic breath.