Antoine Vestier, French
What Really Annoyed Jacques About His Neighbors’ New McMansion Was It Meant He Couldn’t Sunbathe Nude on His Deck Anymore, 1789
Oil on canvas
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/// Shipwrecked Gulliver newly set foot
on the island that’s called Lilliput.
Here, he touches the tower
saved from fire by a shower
of his urine, but now he’s kaput.
/// “Giant” Gulliver now feels betrayed
by the minuscule friends he had made.
They’d grown hostile and cold
since his “Shower of Gold,”
though, for just the same thing, men have paid.
/// Now our hero defines “Lilliputian”
as the tiny ungrateful folk who shun
he who saved their whole nation
from the keep’s conflagration.
(They’re small-minded from de-evolution.)
/// He’s not sans coulottes; more of a fop.
And his hair ‘neath his wig is a mop.
An appointment’s been made
for a “trim” by that blade,
but they’ll take far too much off the top.