Albert Guillaume, French
“You Will Meet a Stranger Who Will Attempt To Defraud You and Steal Your Money. No Wait, That’s Me. Ignore That,” Date Unknown
Oil on canvas
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/// Solange sought to learn when she’ll find love
from a psychic who charts stars above.
Here her Fortune is spilled
by a Teller so skilled
she reads palms through a white doeskin glove.
/// Today’s bill will be paid by le père,
peering over her shoulder with care.
“It’s past time,” he confessed,
“that my child left the nest.
Will she marry a sharp millionaire?”
/// Madame Fifi replied, “Soon, but first…
I must bless all your cash— which is cursed.
Bring it here in a sack,
and when I give it back,
keep it closed or the spell is disbursed.”
/// “Do not open the sack for three weeks,
and Solange will find that which she seeks.”
Did this fortune come true?
Out of town, Fifi flew.
Her name changed, she’s now selling antiques.
/// “Trust her just to the height you could lift her.
She once sold me a fake antique snifter.
Though she has a new job
and the love of a mob,
once a grifter, forever a grifter.”