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After seeing paul en arlequin i confront picasso.(Poem)(Brief article)

 
Look at your son 
perched on the black velvet chaise 
in gentle resignation: 
soft ruffles at the neck and wrists 
hands clasped 
one foot off the floor 
mere outline of the shoes, chair's legs 
 
How secure is that? And why 
a harlequin? Think nimbleness, 
fearless abandon, the lust of Commedia dell' Arte. 
 
Nothing seems right, even the costume's 
colours are muddied yellow, sky blue. 
How wistful. How melancholy. 
 
No bold firecracker reds for this boy. No playing 
with tadpoles, toy boats. 
 
Such a small formalized prince. An heir-  ...

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