Jules Girardet, French
The Ankle Flash Was Just a Teaser. If Gustave Wanted To See Some Toe, He’d Have To Go To Her OnlyFans Page, Date Unknown
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/// As Jacques comes upon A Finely Turned
Ankle, in his “mind’s eye” it is burned.
Marie thought none could see
her bare limb, foot to knee.
Her chance viewer, embarrassed, she spurned.
/// While adjusting her garter that way,
Marie let her leg be on display.
Had Jacques been Marie’s beau,
then she might have teased so,
but a stranger’s stare causes dismay.
/// How can ankles exposed seem obscene?
At that time and place, what did they mean?
Body parts rarely seen
gained an off-color sheen,
(as opposed to her chic belle poitrine).
/// Showing cleavage was harmless and mild.
Marie saw the men staring and smiled.
But to view a bare limb
is forbidden to him;
it’s “below waist” that gets one with child.
/// Jacques then nervously stammered out “Zut!
We just met and already kaput?
What I saw— not my fault.
You need fear no assault.
We two just got off on the wrong foot!”
/// If the Marquis had been a bit smarter
when he glimpsed her adjusting her garter,
he’d have flattered the lass;
let a few minutes pass
before making crude offers of barter.
/// ‘Twould be scandal to take off a shoe.
Showing stocking was shocking to do.
Would she dare monetize
the mere viewing of thighs?
Only now do we have pay-per-view.
/// Girls wore long skirts, and what was below,
a chaste man could not easily know.
Were gams shapely or not?
He won’t know what she’s got
until wedding night at the chateau.
/// And, of course, the same limits applied
to the newly-wed innocent bride.
Her groom might have been adding
some below-the-waist padding
to tight trousers, but what lay inside?