René Magritte, Belgian
It Was Brilliant Really. This Way, If Their Spouses Asked, Bill and Allison Could Answer Truthfully That They WEREN’T Seeing Someone Else, 1928
Oil on canvas
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/// She was told that she looked like a hag,
while his visage could make strong men gag.
Their make-shift solution
to “facial pollution”?
It turns out that the key’s in the bag.
/// They’re descendants of men who wore sheets
to avenge Southern Rebel defeats.
They’d cut then, (in the South),
holes for eyes, not for mouth.
But with tongue holes their kisses are treats.
/// Linens wrapped round both noggins forecloses
any chance they will stop to smell roses.
Going in for the kiss,
when they’re both blind like this,
leads to sheets stained from two bloodied noses.
/// Watch The Lovers, portrayed by Magritte,
stumble blindly along down the street.
Their heads struck, with a shock,
an immense floating rock
with a castle on top of concrete.
/// They had met near the huge warehouse door,
where he’d seen hookers walking before.
All things seem black-and-white
in a hood late at night,
hid from Watchmen patrolling the floor.
/// Though identities can’t be perceived,
Charlie to his “date” Sylvia cleaved.
Being seen made him nervous,
but he’d paid for her service
on this night their son Rorschach’s conceived.
> If you are at all into comics/graphic novels, I recommend “Watchmen.” It is giving nothing important away to tell you that a main character, Walter Kovacs, is the son of an abusive prostitute named Sylvia and a client she called “Charlie.” Walter grew up to be a crime fighter (of sorts) called Rorschach, whose disguise was a hood covering his entire head and face. <
/// It is studied in scholarly books:
Singles care much too much about looks.
Swiping left versus right
is like lust at first sight.
With heads bagged, they can learn what else cooks.