Jean Carolus, Belgian
“Ohhh, This One Might Be My Favorite, Ladies: ‘If I Could Give This Painting Zero Stars I Would. The Women All Just Sit There Like Lumps As Their Pedantic Guest Holds Court in a Classic Mansplaining Posture. Borrrr-ing! Jean Carol-US? More Like Jean Carol-LAME!,'” 1871
Oil on canvas
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/// When A Reading, he did, From Molière,
all the ladies admired his hair.
No one understood much,
they knew German and Dutch,
but no female French speakers were there.
/// He’d have rescued a dead afternoon
if he’d translated French to Walloon,
or Flemish, Limburgish,
Picard, Luxembourgish,
or drawn them a Belgian cartoon.
/// After tedious hours of distress,
their new book club became a success
when they learned to digress,
(no Molière, I confess),
by discussing each young lady’s dress.
// If you’d ask them, I think you would find
that the sisters who came here don’t mind
the decor, (far from quiet);
their dress colors that riot.
Every one of these girls— color blind!