John Bagnold Burgess, English
Sellout Crowd at the Stadium on Fan Appreciation Day, 1897
Oil on canvas
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/// Many Spaniards are big fans of fans,
and the interest in using them spans
wives who can’t take the heat,
girls who flirt on the street,
also men (some of whom may be trans).
/// Spain gets hot; people crave a cool breeze.
Flick your wrist to wave fans such as these,
and with relative ease
you can shed some degrees.
(Credit goes to the wise Japanese.)
/// Chicas flock to this large marketplace,
to buy fans they will flick near their face.
They charm all the chicos
with these abanicos,
playing “peek-a-boo,” peering through lace.
/// The nude dancer with fans says she’s Sally.
She got lost on the way to Death Valley,
so she drew up a map
with some Irish-born chap,
and that’s how they began Rand McNally.
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/// Carmen’s job is to make cigarettes,
but for fun she will play castanets.
As she dances, she’ll sway,
(says this guy named Bizet),
tempting men whom she treats as her pets.
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/// Great ambition that lead to perdition,
when the Spanish had their Inquistion,
which nobody expected,
since nobody elected
Torquemada, (the friar/politician).