Hendrik Maarten Krabbé, Dutch
“Gentlemen, As You Know, I’ve Summoned You Here To Discuss The Central Pacific Railroad’s 3rd Quarter Balance Sheet. And Hey, Speaking of Tracks, Are Taylor’s New Songs Bangers or What?,” 1914
Oil on canvas
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/// When six businessmen met, it was rare
for the one in a tan suit to Chair.
He’s allowed, for he’d shown
he oozed testosterone.
Like the others, he’d grown facial hair.
/// These men lived in the lost “good-old-days,”
when both genders were set in their ways.
Men took charge of the lives
of their children and wives,
and their “trad-wives” extolled them with praise.
/// “Weaker sex” were, of course, second class
before laws granting suffrage would pass.
Some today never learn,
for they long to return
to a ceiling of non-breaking glass.