Bogdan Pavlovich Villevalde, Russian
For the Russian Army, the Napoleonic Wars Were Marked By Long Stretches of Fighting Broken Up By a Few Games of Pictionary, Date Unknown
Oil on canvas
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/// Some French Cavalry men asked directions.
Overdue to make nearby connections.
One young boy’s recollections
sketch this town’s intersections.
He’s “the enemy,” though… no objections?
/// The boy’s map is viewed, held to a wall.
Up above him, a puppy, quite small,
can be seen at a door
on a high upper floor.
With no stair there, an exit’s a fall.
/// The plumed helmets these French soldiers wear
were designed with intention and care,
Even men who are small
look imposing and tall,
(but beneath they get “Marge Simpson hair”).
/// From sharp blows those tall helmets protected,
but a pup up above’s undetected.
If it fell on a head
just the PUP would be dead,
but a warm “shower” isn’t expected.