Edmund Blair Leighton, English
Do Fries Come With That Shake?, 1894
Oil on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #388 (11/5/10)
/// She steps down from her door; he steps up.
He comes home from work. She walks her pup.
The same schedules and yet
they’ve not formally met.
He lacks nerve to invite her to sup.
/// “Ev’ry day we pass by on the stairs.
Though I gaze at her, she’s unawares.
On my mind as I labour
is My Next-Door Neighbour.”
But he’s wrong; she’s aware of his stares.
/// All her life a “good girl” she has been,
but of late she has daydreams of sîn.
His eyes sweep her behind
as she leaves. In her mind
she imagines this man slipping in.