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The Sleeping Gypsy,
1897, by Henri Rousseau,
image via The Mag
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If you’re going to
have
a pet lion
you’d better carry a
stick.
He may get bored of
your
pink hair, sitar strumming
and cheap wine.
After all
that fun gypsy-ing
one does, eventually,
have to eat.
© 2014 Jennifer
Wagner
Ok,
I’m just having a bit of poetic fun with this wonderful painting by Rousseau provided
by the excellent poet and hostess Tess Kincaid at Magpie Tales. Check out the work of other writers there--I’m
sure they came up with something less cringeworthy and cliché than I did in
writing to this image. :-) I
think it’s my mood.
And
I used to have pink hair on one side. I
kinda miss it.