Sir Henry Raeburn, British
Husband and Wife Standing Where He Could Have Sworn They Parked the Horse and Carriage, 1790
Oil on canvas
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/// Sir John turned to his wife with a nod.
Lady Clark thought her husband seemed odd.
“‘Twas with this gesture, Madam,
that I brought life to Adam.”
Sir John clearly believed he was God.
/// Such a statement could not be ignored.
“Pray, explain what you mean,” she implored.
“Genesis, don’t you see,
is referring to me!
It says Adam was made by the Lord.”
/// Doubters claimed that Sir John was insane.
“Deified” when he’d injured his brain.
Cracked his skull and he yelled.
Then his cerebrum swelled
to a size standard hats can’t contain.
/// His delusion was just as she feared.
That same day John stopped shaving his beard.
He stopped cutting his hair,
found a pink robe to wear,
and insisted that he be revered.
/// Because John was a man of some means,
he paid people to duplicate scenes
Michelangelo’d done,
and his favorite one:
Being carried by naked pre-teens.
/// He’d extend his right hand toward a nude
youth (who didn’t know pointing is rude).
Lady Clark prayed “Jehovah”
would get well and get over
his ungodly need to self-delude.