Paul Fischer, Danish
It Was Jasmine’s First Time Playing Strip Hide-and-Seek, and Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Going Well, 1894
Oil on canvas
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/// As a child she’d played Hide-and-Go-Seek,
but these new rules were strange and unique.
When you’re “it” you must peel
off your clothes to reveal
if you’re willing to show you’ve got cheek.
// With her eyes closed, one arm to her face,
Jasmine counts to one hundred in place.
Since she’s “it” boys should hide,
but they’re still by her side.
When she stripped, they did not leave her “base.”
/// Counting done, she announced with some grit:
Anyone round my base is now “IT.”
All the young men, still there,
broke the rules, but don’t care.
Some had stripped, too, and hoped she’d submit.
/// In that group of teen boys, there was one
who thought playing the game right was fun.
It was Lars she could trust
not to view her with lust.
He had praised, not her buns, but her bun.
/// So she left all the other boys there,
staring mutely at her derrière.
Cheeky Jasmine got dressed,
(she’d proved she’s not repressed),
and, with Lars, left to restyle her hair.
/// (If a boy who is straight wanted to,
he could slyly, in secret, pursue
girls who buy the cliché
that all stylists are gay,
just like Beatty had done in “Shampoo.”)
/// It turns out that Lars did like her rear,
but he played the long-game to get near
to Jasmine, who’d swear
he prefers buns in hair.
She’s at ease with him, thinking he’s queer.
/// Jasmine thinks Lars is cute and she’s sure
that he’s sweet and his motives are pure.
She assumes that he’s gay,
but must he stay that way?
With the right girl, could there be a “cure”?
/// She thinks, “Viewed from the rear, I could pass
as a boy (with a smooth hairless asś).
If Lars can’t see my front,
and I speak with a grunt,
we can spoon even though I’m a lass.”
/// Having proved before that she’s not prim,
Jasmine stripped again, keeping lights dim.
She asked Lars to please try
to view her as a guy.
Now she falsely thinks she seduced him!