Edgar Degas, French
Baby Got (Bad) Back, ca. 1870
Oil on canvas
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Edgar Degas, French
Baby Got (Bad) Back, ca. 1870
Oil on canvas
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page (Google translated gold-starred Catalan Wikipedia page has more).
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/// Hilde swallowed a huge chunk of cheese,
and then right away started to wheeze;
gagging, getting no air.
Though her husband was there,
he’s a mean, unreliable sleaze.
/// At his desk, he is Sulking, (no joking),
unaware that his partner is choking.
She was forced to pursue her
solo Heimlich maneuver.
Thus a chair’s back kept Hilde from croaking.
/// If you’re choking you cannot form words.
When some hard cheddar cut into thirds
became lodged in her throat,
Hilde had to emote
to her husband while spitting out curds.
/// She signaled by clutching her neck,
but, not looking, he groused, “Wait a sec!”
So when she heard him say,
“I can’t stop now, no whey!”
she saw now that her husband was dreck.
/// Deadline’s come, so the banker’s supposing
that her mortgage he’ll now be foreclosing.
But she holds in her hand
the true deed to her land,
and his fraud she will now be exposing.
< OR >
/// First, her doctor ruled out scoliosis.
He sulked, struggling to make diagnosis.
Later, under hypnosis,
she revealed her neurosis:
She bends down close to sniff halitosis.
< OR >
/// From the moment she walked through his door
some great force pulled her down toward the floor.
“Miss, your tax. It’s a lot.
I’m afraid you do not
grasp the gravity of what’s in store!”
< OR >
/// Hortense leaned over close to confide
that she knew how his rich wife had died.
Although, if he complied
and agreed to provide
enough cash, he would never be tried.