That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 18, 2022

This painting is titled “Way Too Much Silk”.

How many sonnets does it take to get to a house of three?

/// Gianni’s goal in The Poetry Reading

is seduction, and he is succeeding.

The two girls’ hearts beat quick

from each blue limerick.

He’ll soon teach them the meaning of breeding.

Blue Girl: God this is boring, how much more of this do I have to put up with?Pink Girl: Shhhh, keep pretending, he’s very, very rich.

Now stop me if you’ve heard this one There was sweet lass from Lyon, ’’Stop,stop!!!

Barrington enjoyed entertaining the young maidens with his naughty limericks.

Jeanette and Virginia, two well-brought young ladies, nevertheless giggled at the saucy excerpts that young Tom quoted from “Joe Miller’s Joke Book.”

Examples:

3. Joe Miller sitting one day in the window at the Sun Tavern in Clare Street, a fishwoman and her maid passing by, the woman cried, “Buy my souls, buy my maids.” Ah! you wicked old creature, said honest Joe, what are you not content to sell your own soul, but you must sell your maid’s too?

83. A lady’s age happening to be questioned, she affirmed she was but forty, and called upon a gentleman who was in company, for his opinion: Cousin, said she, do you believe I am in the right when I say I am but forty? I am sure, madam, replied he, I ought not to dispute it; for I have constantly heard you say so for above these ten years.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/43326/43326-h/43326-h.htm

Oh well, I guess you “had to be there or be square.”

He could be reading the phone book for all these enamored girls care.

Tee hee…giggle, giggle

Lord Fontaine thought himself to be the most entertaining of young men. However, little did he realize the two young ladies were not laughing with him, but rather, at him. His fly was unbuttoned.

The country is going to seed /

If ever we hope to succeed/

In achieving our station/

in the family of nations/

we must teach the women to read !

That’s what the Deep Thinkers wrote/

And the government wisely took note/

And (wouldn’t you know?)/

In a century or so/

They started demanding the vote !

There’s only one “final” demand/

(Things have gotten quite out of hand!)/

They want to control/

Both body AND soul:/

(A madness is sweeping the land !)/

Lawrence Fop entrancing the Twitter sisters!

“How do I love you? Let me count the ways” quoted Giovanni as he introduced the girls to the Kama Sutra book.

This meeting of the Pastel-Wearing Erotica-Reading Book Club will please come to order.

In a world gone sombre and beige / As blank as an unwritten page / One cannot help but wonder / As you puzzle and ponder / Is the world a stage or a cage?

Sister, I wonder how many tricks we can get him to do if we just flirt and act giddy.

“The Three-way” by Ménage à trois

In Shakespeare’s day, privileged members of the audience actually sat on the stage.

“Can’t you see how happy the woman in the painting is to have her top down? You two should give it a try.”

They never thought of flash mobs.

“Squee! Those shoes are cute enough to die for! Too bad the guy wearing them is such a dork.”

Dainty slippers on his silken stockinged feet.

“If we just stare at him with a maniacal grin, maybe he’ll go away.”

Ladies, I hope you weren’t hoping for any romance from this guy; his fashion choices lead me to suspect he bats for the other team.

The Poetry Reading: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Vittorio Reggianini" 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: found, and once there find the text string Poetry, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3031 (November 18, 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.

Pssst! Don’t say anything, but his fly is open! (tee hee)

“Ooooohhh … that chapter was steamy! Hey, is it my imagination or is that wrinkle in the silk getting bigger?”

If the world is a stage, I would like to have word or two with the director about My part.

The ladies listened with rapt attention to his masterful recitation of the Congressional Record.

Nothing could be funner than rubbing out another in front of your sisssssss-ters!

“There once was a knave from Nantucket…”