Eugène Pascau, French
“Hey, It Looks Like the Two of You ARE Special. It Says Here That With Identical Twins, the Pornstache Is Usually a RECESSIVE Gene,” ca. 1900
Oil on canvas
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/// Honoré Champion, (with white hair),
reads to sons, Édouard and Pierre.
He collects rare old books
which deserve second looks.
With his boys, bawdy limericks he’ll share.
/// Ribald verses show humor and zest.
By surprising new rhymes they’re impressed.
And the etched illustrations
spur lusty sensations.
(The pix that pop-up are the best!)
/// The two siblings portrayed in this art
look alike, but don’t take that to heart.
If each has a twin brother
we should pity their mother,
who gave birth to them two years apart.
/// The boy’s father’s a publisher— famed.
And for book preservation acclaimed.
In his library they
read a volume today
in which sinful ancestors are named.
/// Their papa was a scholar and gent.
Sired sons toward great lit’rature bent.
Publishing made their mark.
Dumb deeds done in the dark
would cause scandals they strove to prevent.