Vittorio Matteo Corcos, Italian
“You See This News About the Golf Merger? And I Thought Pacino and That 29-Year-Old Were a Weird Couple,” 1895
Oil on canvas
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/// While her bro reads his paper, sis looks
at his pile of worn paperback books.
When she checks, she discovers,
between plain yellow covers,
lurid tales about hookers and crooks.
/// It is clear that her “shy” brother reads
about more than political deeds.
Many pages were lewd,
and together they’re “glued”
by dried evidence of carnal needs.
/// She’s not certain about what to do.
Confront brother with what she now knew?
No… replace them herself
to their dusty bookshelf,
where some nights she might borrow a few.