Franz Xavier Simm, Austrian
“Be Honest, Clifford. Do We Have Something Special, Or Do You Show All the Girls Uranus on the Second Date?,” 1890s
Oil on wood
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/// At the Viewing Point Lorenz has shown
naive Lena what she hadn’t known.
Through the spyglass she spied
her fiancé astride
a young woman, disheveled and prone.
/// They are standing the only place where
someone could (with a telescope) stare
through the window into
the locked room where those two
were engaged in a furtive affair.
/// Because Lorenz, for years, had desired
lovely Lena he’d planned and conspired
to make her enraged
at the man she’s engaged
to— caught screwing the girl Lorenz hired.
/// Now, at first, Lorenz thought he had won;
she declared her engagement was done.
Yet the money he’d paid
made him sad, I’m afraid,
because Lena took vows as a nun.