MASTERPIECE #3691

/// Call her “dog” and the girl couldn’t care less,
yet her beauty halts breath as though airless.
To this riddle the answer
is clear— The Nude Dancer
is Xolo, a Mexican hairless.

/// Her companion sits slumping and slack.
Of youth, beauty and grace there’s a lack.
Since the bare ballerina
is in all ways Latina,
that’s her duenna who’s dressed all in black.

/// We can see from the way she’s depicted
that the girl likes to “dance” unrestricted
by cloth touching her bod,
but her friend thinks that’s odd;
her expression proves duenna’s conflicted.

/// Xolo clearly intends to provoke.
On the wall hang her dress and dark cloak.
Though they don’t seem to mind,
in the valley behind
them are billows of heavy black smoke.

/// This young girl’s an enchanting young creature,
and the duenna has been a good teacher.
Some think “underdeveloped,”
but before flames enveloped,
she will turn and show off her best feature.