Too
Big a Noise for my Trade
I
have not the lines to describe the whim of a painter fashioning a portrait of a
kept woman,
nor
have I saddled my gaze upon the seesawing bosom, supple skin's dimpled rise,
the rounds and turns of a damsel’s posture looming out of a steamy
illustrator’s zoomed lens
it's
rendered foreign to me, that adverse ineptness straddling up on my tongue
needless
to say, the portrait in itself is an object of forlorn ambience to the eyes of
the escapist,
the
one extremist I am inescapably mutating into
unwrapped
to such a cruel set of words, too soon I'm bound to step aside and let the
painter and his paint do what they think to know best
The Art of Painting -- Johannes Vermeer
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