That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 04, 2022

/// Three grim Children exert their control

with their gaze boring deep in your soul.

Fourth will cast his spell, too,

just as soon as he’s through

checking out that suspicious new mole.

The artist decided to paint the same kid and different angles, hoping the parents wouldn’t notice.

“No, the camera is not in his ear.”

Another clue that Paul is dead

Every time mommy and daddy wanted to have ‘special’ time, the kids had to go wait in the garden.

Phyllis always thought it was funny to have her dinner party guests try to guess which of her children was a boy.

Four reasons mom hopes the quarantine and home schooling are really over!

You’ve got a bug in your ear Wally.

Jerome was the homely kid in the family, so the painter gave him a “special” sweater and turned him to profile. Art can only do so much.

How timely! Here are a few of “The Boys From Brazil.”

They’re devoid of genetic diversity/

They’re the product of pride plus perversity/

You know they’re entitled/

(They’re pale and “near-sightled”)/

They’ll be sent to a fine university:///

They’re the spawn of a single mother/

They look out for one another,./

But if you would rather/

Not get Mom “in a lather”/

Don’t ask who’s their Dad: (it’s her brother..)

They had their dessert, now they watch you eat yours

There’s one in every family.

What? No booger jokes?

MOM! HE’S LOOKING AT ME AGAIN!

Five years after this Christmas card went out no one was surprised to hear the Smith kids had become a gang of traveling serial killers.

Later that day, the Stepford children disassembled their non-conformist brother.

Is ENT an initialism I should know? Or is it a Tolkien reference? The caption went over my head.

One of these kids . is not like the other…..

Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child fair of face, Wednesday’s child is fair of face, but Thursday’s child is out of place.

ENT? What’s an ENT? Is this some abbreviation? None of them look like ents.

“It was my turn to wear the boy’s clothes this time!”

“ENT”?

My Three Sons before Ernie got glasses and before Uncle Charlie killed one – accidentally.

Hey Mikey!

The painting reminds me of two movies: Village of the D@mned and Children of the D@mned.

That boy was such a truant, he’s used to posing in a right profile.

Melancholy, Petulant, Daft, and Camera Shy. What happened to Hope, Faith and Charity? Oh my!

“Criancas” (Children)

Is this the real life?

Is this just fantasy?

Caught in a landside,

No escape from reality

Children: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Children (Karl Ernst Papf)" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: (File: in the case of Google currently takes you directly to it) found, and once there find the first Google text string, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting (best viewed using Google Chrome. which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary).

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3005 (October 4, 2022) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. First work by this artist used here.

“Nice earwax you’ve got there.”

are these children of the corn?

kids dressed up in finest for yearly pic, but only one picture left so all of them had to be in it.

given the number of questions about “ENT” I reiterate:

We really deserve an apology:

for such a linguistic morphology.

That acronym needs patching

for its letters aren’t matching

with otorhinolaryngology

Seriously, tell me what does gender change mean?

I spy

With my little eyes

a flower, on the other side of your head.

For tomorrow:

She slept on her side, til she waked/

But only one side of her ached/

Some things can’t be faked/

(But at least she’s not “naked”)

Still – there’s no question that she’s “half-baked” !