Félix Vallotton, Swiss-French
Despite Her Assertions To the Contrary, It Quickly Became Clear That This WAS Katie’s First Rodeo, 1908
Oil on canvas
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/// In the myths, (of which Ovid had written),
by Europa the god Jove was smitten.
As a white bull he flees
with her over the seas,
but this one is JOHN Bull, or Great Britain.
/// Everything which this picture depicts,
with the myth in its name, contradicts.
Ovid wrote she was dressed,
and of beauties, the best.
I think Félix here Brexit predicts.
/// She here “takes the bull by the horns” tight
while, from Europe, it seems to take flight.
It does not seek communion,
but is leaving the Union.
In time, will he regret it? He might.
/// Still, the feature at which our jaws gape
is the nude’s callipygian shape.
Her full figure is lush,
(lesser gods she might crush),
does this show her abduction, or rape?
/// One would think she should be quite upset.
No, she treats this huge beast like a pet.
One leg hooks o’er his spine
as he swims through the brine,
and yet neither one looks to be wet.
/// As they swim toward the far Cretan bank,
she’s exposed— no one covers her flank.
Her butt’s awesome to see,
(almost seems like 3-D),
and it tempts those who view it to spank.