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If You Pull a Long Face: Xliii - the Embalmed Mona Lisa Under the Glass Pyramid
If You Pull a Long Face: Xliii - the Embalmed Mona Lisa Under the Glass Pyramid
IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : XLIII– the Embalmed Mona Lisa in the Glass Pyramid
If you pull a long stymied face
Make certain you peel eyes that do not stray
Or else the faces you make will make-up put out-of-place
Yet the legions who march past portrait make for dire prey
If you keep pulling that mock long-pulled enigmatic face
Not even oil on poplar buttressed by beech oak sycamore or maple
Nor butterfly braces lock Mona Lisa’s back-warping brace
Sfumato style phase out smile eyelashes eyebrows from wood panel
If you must pull that long neither nor face
Two faces fused in one while in the family way
Dumbfounded tourists be trampled under divisive gaze
Did not Leonardo cross-eyed dab paint in reverie gay
If you then insist on pulling a long-painted face
Own mocking glances at François 1er’s La Gioconda, nay
Count yourself among millions Lady Gherardini’s to praise
Think of the billions it takes to care for her image and so pay
Yet if you then keep pulling that long-amused face
Watching myriad eyes searching the reasons for your precious sway
Pied-Piper armies come trampling trapped in a momentary craze
The pent-up pilgrims in your glass sanctum-sanctorum catharsis obey
© T. Wignesan – Paris, September 25, 2019
Copyright © T Wignesan | Year Posted 2019
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