Artist Unknown, Italian
Portrait of a Man in a Fur-Trimmed Coat (With Angry Note PETA Left On His Windshield), ca. 1540
Oil on canvas
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/// A manly man, still he did love
some lace near his collar and glove.
He had hopes they’d still show,
each crocheted furbelow,
despite all the thick fur above.
fur•be•low (noun) a pleated or gathered piece of material. : something that suggests a furbelow especially in being showy or superfluous.
/// There once was a Russian named Mischa
embarrassed to bed fair Ayesha.
So, from his fur jerkin
he made a male merkin
to cover his crotch alopecia.