Albert Guillaume, French
“Sorry Lady, But We Have a Strict “No Returns” Policy. Have You Considered Military School?,” Before 1942
Oil on panel
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// At the zoo, she is, to her dismay,
tête à tête with a bird on display.
The sign says “Common Crane,”
but to Séphora’s brain,
he’s the same as a stork. (Naïveté?)
/// She’d just learned she is pregnant— (her sins!)
Maybe more than one. (She never wins.)
She fears pain during birth
and would give all she’s worth
if a stork could deliver her twins.
/// The crane balances on one thin leg.
Crazed Séphora is tempted to beg.
“Must my children get here
amid pain, blood and fear?”
All the bird knows of birth is an egg.
/// The stork is, as a species, much smaller
than the crane, which is stronger and taller.
Kids not yet one day old,
storks can’t lift, much less hold.
Takes a crane to hoist her hefty squaller.
/// The hats she owns festooned with plumes
fill the closets in several rooms.
That crane should be impressed
that she’d “feathered her nest”
via thousands of peacocks in tombs.