Samuel Edmund Waller, British
Going Through the Drive-Thru Window at In-N-Oats, 1891
Oil on canvas
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/// Geoff was wealthy, standoffish and idle.
And he guided his horse by the bridle
toward his new bride inside
before the morning ride
which would end with Geoff deemed suicidal.
/// His wife stood at the window to feed
tainted “treats” to the spirited steed,
which would make the beast bolt,
throwing Geoff with a jolt.
“He rode recklessly,” it was decreed.
/// Geoff had landed, quite hard, on his head.
He was crippled for life, but not dead.
The wife got, not his purse,
but the duty to nurse
the despised man she’d injured, instead.
/// By her window he stood, nonchalant,
with the hope they’d achieve a détente.
“You’ve put up with my whore;
she’s for sex, nothing more,
but I’ll give her up now, if you want!”
/// She replied, “I don’t care, don’t be silly.
You can do what you want with your Willie.
Whores get money, of course;
your love goes to your horse.
You must choose— either me or that filly!”