Édouard Manet, French
After a Long Day Deciphering Ancient Sumerian Texts, Randolph Liked To Relax With a Trashy Beach Read, 1861
Oil on canvas
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/// Manet’s friend, Joseph Gall is The Reader.
He’s engrossed in this tome by a leader
in the field of obstetrics.
But beyond facts and metrics,
Joseph misses his nights as a breeder.
/// In his youth Gall had sired many kin.
That’s the happiest he’d ever been.
This large book’s all about
how the newborns come out.
Gall recalls (fondly) putting them in.
/// All the young models painters may seek
view this old artist as an antique.
In his time Gall has viewed
hundreds of women nude,
(but preferred his old hands-on technique).
/// If he’s in “those” files, he’ll be impacted,
so he paid out some bribes and he acted.
They’ve been bound in this book
and he’ll carefully look
to be certain his name was redacted.
/// Victims made some unprovable claims,
so “by accident” here are THEIR names.
All these black boxes here
ensure he won’t appear,
so don’t listen to underage dames.