Józef Simmler, Russian-Polish
Ahhh, But Arnold Did Love the Sea. From the Smell of the Salt Air to the Wind in His Mustache, 1852
Oil on canvas
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“Portrait of doctor Theodor Teutold-Tripplin, traveller”
/// This work’s name, as it now seems to me,
overuses the same letter: “T.”
Take these titles (they’re trite),
term them turgid tonight,
tending towards treacly tall-tales too twee.
/// Doctor Tripplin’s face made me begin
to suspect that he might well be kin,
from the same small gene pool
as the great “Perfect Fool”
and his son, check him out, Keenan Wynn.
/// Like iguanas, his neck looked reptilian,
with deep folds in flesh strangely vermillion.
Every crevice and flap
covered by his chin–strap,
the hair trimmed in a style called Brazilian.