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Goya in the Time of King George*

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Goya, in our land
where Saturn devours his children every morning,
rigs markets in the afternoon
and goes to mass on Sundays,
where the “Prince of Peace”
becomes the God of War
and Mammon reigns supreme,
where witches and incubi eclipse our skies
and gnomes and hobgoblins roam our streets,
come paint our vapid king and queen**,
our slaughter of the innocents,
our Adams raping Eves.
Goya, come paint us mainly,
not as we’ll pay to seem
but as we are!

* Although the Spanish painter Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828) is perhaps best known for paintings such as “The Naked Maja” and “The Clothed Maja”, he is equally revered for his satirical/”dark” paintings and etchings that depict follies and superstitions in his native Spain. These include paintings such as “Saturn Devouring his Son,” “The Witches Sabbath,” “The Incantation”, and “The Second of May”, to pick a few, and 3 collections of etchings, “The Caprichos (caprices), The Dispartes (follies) and Proverbios (proverbs), and “The Disasters of War”. The regal vapidity depicted in his painting, The Family of Charles IV, is probably more a tribute to realism than an attempt to satirize his royal patrons.

** ”Goya in the time of...” was written during the reign of Mr. George Bush.



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