That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for October 25, 2023

To Pieter’s shock, the girl covering his eyes wasn’t the one he was writing a love letter to.

Reason #34 not to work from home.

/// Young man sits at a desk, starts to write.

Two hands cover his eyes, blocking sight.

She appeared at midnight,

flesh and garb both bone white.

His reaction— delight, or sheer fright?

Molly, you know I need to send this letter to my banker tonight. I’ll unwrap my ‘present’ after I’m done!

“Okay now, without looking what colour are my eyes?”

Screenwriter for “Ghost’’.

Guess who!!

—) As shown is Etienne Jeaurat’s student work, Self Portrait: Etienne’s assigned guardian angel, St. Gigi, covers his eyes to prevent him, as a horny French teenage boy, from drawing gratuitous naughty pictures.

She reminds him of the prayer he learned as a young child: “Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God’s love commits me here. Ever this day be at my side, to light, to guard, to rule, to guide. Amen.”

She succeeded in directing his focus into professional art. As an artist, he of course found it necessary to study anatomy via the unclothed human form. But he sublimated the skills thus learned into painting nude scenes (for educational purposes, of course) from ancient mythology, as well as contemporary unbaptized foreign pagans that ran around naked unashamedly. (—

How Braille was invented.

He’s writing a declaration/

Intended to be the foundation/

Enshrining the right/

To shoot strangers on sight/

Of a wondrously well-armed nation.

What the heck does he have in that right pants pocket?

Though nervous, he had practiced this very scenario dozens of times. The life of a colonial playboy was a welcomed challenge.

Stop it, Mom!

Yes, honey I am quite surprised, Puritan or not you can’t wear white since you were like 16.

Tired of Julia’s annoying attempts at distraction, James stabbed her to death with his quill pen.

The jury considered it justifiable homicide.

Jeanette, getting current trends confused and trying to enforce No-Novel November.

“You don’t need to read it, just sign it.” Martha gets everything in the divorce.

“Okay, now spread your middle and ring fingers slightly…Perfect. That cuts down on the glare from the fire nicely. Now hold it there.”

Girl covers the eyes of a young man: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:People writing in art" Wikimedia 

(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 1964, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using the Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser, which can automatically translate most webpages if necessary) about this roughly A4 paper size drawing.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3210 (October 25, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu. I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

How can I ‘Guess Who’? We’ve been married five years and I still haven’t seen your face.

Visited by the ghost of bad dates past

/// He gets headaches from straining his eyes

when, to write for long hours, he tries.

His wife comes to soothe

with her hands, cool and smooth.

Then he quits to make love— no surprise.

Leila covers his eyes as he signs the prenup.

She works in the local mall/

Selling perfumes and such from a stall/

He can easily tell/

From her many-layered smell-/

It’s her name he can’t seem to recall…

But if, as she hopes, he will let her/

Show the splendors that lurk neath her sweater/

In a flattering light/

She’s probably right/

In assuming he’ll never forget her!

“You realize, of course, that as a ghost of girlfriends past I can see right through your hands!”