Francis Sydney Muschamp, British
“What Are You in the Mood For, Polly? Squawkmaninoff, John Cage, or a little Béla Birdtálk?,” 1896
Oil on canvas
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/// When their two voices blend it’s harmonic,
which is actually somewhat ironic.
Molly wants both to croon
the identical tune,
whereas Polly prefers polyphonic.
/// Molly’s style could be called histrionic,
and yet Polly’s was somewhat sardonic.
The parrot was bored
by the girl’s harpsichord
and squawked in a manner demonic.
/// I don’t really mean to attack her,
but Molly’s a bit of a slacker.
She’ll secretly munch
Polly’s treats with a crunch,
and cough as she chokes on a cracker.
/// Polly warned Molly, “Let my food go, sis!”
(Paranoia had spread like osmosis.)
“That’s not how you should speak,”
Moll said, kissing Poll’s beak. /
And that’s how they both got psittacosis.
/// Strangers viewing this pair thought it folly
that the floor has no paper ‘neath Polly.
Seeds don’t drop from his beak
and he tends not to leak,
(which is not always true about Molly).
/// Molly’s one of those Broadway Show nerds
who writes music to fit someone’s words.
A co-author she seeks.
Transcribes what Polly speaks,
but his lyrics are all for the birds.
/// Molly brags that she once won a Tony
for her music, but that claim is phony.
Should move The Music Lesson
to a delicatessen,
because Molly is full of bologna.