Ricardo López-Cabrera, Spanish
“Yes, I Absolutely Do Think We Should Do It In Here. Why Waste All the Money We Paid For This Extra Soundproofing?,” ca. 1895
Oil on wood
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/// Inés hangs on his every remark.
Joaquín senses a definite spark.
Though she’s pure and well-bred,
a long tunnel’s ahead,
and a lot can occur in the dark.
/// This compartment of this very train,
they’ll return to again and again.
As they speed across Spain,
these two cannot refrain
from behaving as sweetheart and swain.
/// Notice what, in each hand, she has got.
There’s a fan in case things get too hot.
There’s a lace hanky, too,
and I put it to you
that, for blowing her nose, it is not.
/// They bill and coo like turtledoves,
She has silky soft skin, which he loves.
He says, “Please understand.
Give to me your bare hand,
Inés, don’t handle me with kid gloves!”
/// To Juaquín she’d sincerely implore
that they both keep both feet on the floor.
Otherwise, their wild fun’ll,
(just as train enters tunnel),
reproduce, in real life, metaphor.
/// They’re a couple who go to the brink
of an intimate, sensuous link.
Two train cars couple, too,
like the coupling he’d do—
“hooking up” with her (after strong drink).
Sweetheart and swain swiftly speed across Spain,
there is little that could hold them back.
Unless torrential rains flood Iberian plains
and their train has no usable track.