Christian Andreas Schleisner, Danish
Irving Loved It When Sylvia Whispered Dirty Talk in His Ear. But It Was Always a Little Awkward When She Did It at Work, 1859
Oil on canvas
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/// At a Coppersmith’s Workshop his bride
whispered something. He gasped, his eyes wide.
“Your apprentice, Björn, lied.
Copper that you supplied
he stole. Sells IUDs on the side.”
/// When his secret the Master’s wife spilt,
Björn was forced to confess shame and guilt.
But he’d now have to face
the female client base
that, with care, he’d painstakingly built.
/// In that time and place Björn was the sole
source of non-rhythm-based birth control.
IUDs made of copper
had now come a cropper.
He could hope for, in time, a parole.
// I can feel that apprentice’s pain.
Forced to listen to smith’s wife complain
about something he did.
He seems like a good kid
and I’d guess that his “sins” were mundane.
/// He is constantly losing his hat,
and his hammer’s not where he last sat.
He has not reached his goal
to create one good bowl.
Should he really be let go for that?
/// The boy’d been reluctantly hired
due to fear that his grandma inspired.
She’s the smith’s bully sister.
(He could never resist her.)
She’ll explode if her grandson gets fired!
/// He had died of a stroke in his chair,
sitting upright; the kids left him there.
Didn’t move, didn’t blink,
but his wife didn’t think
this was odd, (or else, she didn’t care).