On Seeing the Mona Lisa
On Seeing the Mona Lisa
By Elton Camp
When I was at the Louvre I just had to go
See a famous painting done by Leonardo
But it took me really quite a long while
To see Mona Lisa’s world famous smile
For people to see it too good they must fear
Because a railing wouldn’t let anybody near
That they had things to hide it seemed to me
If it had more light, it’d be much easier to see
When I finally got as close to it as I could
What they wanted to conceal I understood
Its fame most certainly had been oversold
Why, it must have been a hundred years old
Mona Lisa was wearing a dark old dress
And her long, stringy hair was a total mess
A part in the middle made her look so dumb
Her hair net surely needed pulling up some
An outfit tacky as that she must have stolen
And her right hand looks like it’s all swollen
On her too-fat fingers she wore not a ring
Hanging around her neck wasn’t a thing
Bags under her eyes were ugly and deep
Like she hadn’t been getting much sleep
Maybe so a model he wouldn’t have to pay
He had his scrubbing woman pose that way
That would account for her really nice smile
She wouldn’t be doing hard work for a while
Looking closer, I had to say, “Why I declare,
That picture has lots of cracks most everwhere.”
If I come back to Paris, I won’t see it anymore
I’ve seen much better paintings in a resale store
It may have been sort of fine when it was new
But of decorating use it is now about through
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