Sunday, January 4, 2026

Don't Make Those Cards, Renoir!

 Don’t Make Those Cards, Renoir!


He is dead. But agrees.

Don’t print The Country Dance

on card stock & sell in boxes of 20. 


Oh the robust mustache. The bearded face

that smells the blush dust of country woman’s

cheek while dancing. Country eyes inhaling.


Why because some modern man will buy 

the cards & write inside one 

& accidentally say the truth!: I am glass & you are


concrete floor. I am glass 

6 feet up & 

dropped


— we get it. 

[violent section]



What if I (me) go to the Morgan Library

& Museum & there they are:

sketch upon sketch upon sketch


of this pair

waiting to be painted 

with his nose again again again


against her rosed-up cheek.

Country woman looks at us. She says

OMG can you believe this


guy he loves the smell of me!

He loves my bosoming the ballooning

of my bottom & extra flare of bottom skirt


but oh oh oh don’t ever make us

into cards for sale in boxes of 20.

(She agrees!) Some guy modern will buy us


& write inside one:

Woman, let this be you 

& me


& ah! The woman modern (me)

will break

open


& will wrap herself

around 

his van


& they will take off

& [die]

Renoir! Don't let nose smell heat!

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