Michael Peter Ancher, Danish
“So This Thing Didn’t Work on Rocks and Now It Doesn’t Work on Sand. I Say We Just Chuck the Piece of Crap Into the Ocean. Who’s With Me?,” 1883
Oil on canvas
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/// Months ago that ship sailed through typhoons.
Now the sandbar which trapped it maroons
sailors here where it’s icy.
Odds of leaving are dicey,
so a Lifeboat is dragged Through the Dunes.
/// Danish townsfolk know just what to do
to first reach and then rescue the crew.
Through a fierce winter storm,
far from homes safe and warm,
heroes trudge toward the ship, now in view.
/// Their route to the water’s unpaved,
yet through obstacles onward they braved.
Other paintings depict
how fresh setbacks were licked.
In the end, most aboard would be saved.