Hendrik Kaemmerer, Dutch
“Yes, the Cannon Is Fully Operational. Sometimes When I’m Bored I’ll Fill It With Water Balloons and Take Potshots at Jet Skiers,” ca. 1895
Oil on canvas
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/// At the Seashore, two ladies have just
strolled by cannon all covered in rust.
France’s violent past
didn’t, (thank the Lord), last.
Such things now are not ever discussed.
/// These two beautifully dressed mesdemoiselles
have grown up in an Époque called Belle.
Surely art, wealth and peace
will endure and increase.
A “World War” none would dare to foretell.
/// So these two take a walk hand-in-hand
between giant guns dumped in the sand.
They know just what to wear,
and spent hours on their hair,
but world politics don’t understand.
/// They pass weapons abandoned, decayed—
and see relics their grandfathers made.
By “good times” they’ve been lulled;
threat alarms have been dulled
and they can’t read the signs, “Be afraid!”