Eduard von Steinle, Austrian
Try Today’s “Priceless” Tongue Twister! “Percival the Paranoid Pole Vaulter Pensively Peered at the Pack of Prowling Pumas,” 1871
Oil on canvas
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/// Tower Guard from the Era of Knights
has a pole for a weapon in fights.
Proper armor he lacks,
so he fends off attacks
in his vertically striped (slimming) tights.
/// Of this tower he’s just one defender,
but last night the rest went on a bender.
They’re hungover today,
so from work stayed away.
(If the foe should attack, he’ll surrender.)
/// Tights are splendid, but not much protection
against bruising or cuts or infection.
If a “kicker” shows up,
he’s not wearing a cup
and he thinks about that with dejection.
Perhaps Percival’s persistently petulant potty-mouth produces painful peremptory paranoia. Pleasantly passive pronouncements preferred presently.