Marguerite Gérard, French
“It’s From Mr. Darcy. He Wants To Connect on LinkedIn,” 1808
Oil on canvas
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Info, or perhaps links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here (archived if necessary), here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in her Wikipedia page (Google translated French Wikipedia page may have more).
/// To this woman, a letter came through
from her husband in far Timbuktu.
On a huge globe her père
plots how far— here from there—
to determine exact postage due.
/// Her man writes of how much she is missed—
that he dreams of their very first tryst.
How she couldn’t resist
when her pulse points were kissed.
Now her puppy is licking her wrist.
/// Though it’s been a year since they embraced,
on his honor, he swears he’s been chaste.
His young beautiful wife
is his reason for life,
and he’d die were he ever replaced.
/// While her husband has voyaged off yonder,
in his absence their hearts have grown fonder.
But while he’s far away,
also growing each day
is the urge from their spouses to wander.
/// She’ll write back to enquire of his health,
and explain how they’re handling his wealth.
She is very quick-witted;
knows what must be omitted,
for example, the nights marked by stealth.
/// He will read of her routines quotidian,
and learn zilch of acts dark as obsidian.
She won’t clean up her act
‘til her père plots the fact
that her spouse is back in their meridian.