Monday, July 7, 2014

Fake!

MAGPIE 227
Tintype  c1850s
Portrait of blind man holding a cat

Photo courtesy Tess Kinkaid,Magpie Tales

http://magpietales.blogspot.com/2014/07/mag-227.html


I found a find
In a dusty  shop
Among the possessions
Of victims' tears

Someone, somewhere
Lost all they owned
When bailiffs came
Stripping them bare

Here's  a photograph
Dark lacquer coated
Pressed on melainotype
Cast into time

I thought a thought
Saw in my mind
A bad reproduction
Tom Cruise fake

Barbara M Lake  ©
July 2014
Trinidad WI












12 comments:

  1. ha. yes, or johnny depp....lol...
    so many of those little shops...full of memories...
    def wonder at the stories behind them....

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  2. Yes, indeed. Pretty much. Those classes, so modern. That cat so wondrously NOT blurred.

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  3. Oops. That would be GLASSES. Bad me.

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  4. Giggle...love the humor at the end...

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  5. Fun write - a VERY bad remake indeed!

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  6. Yes a bit like Tom . . . . wonder who he really was! ~ Eddie

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  7. Good take on the image Bee. You have hit on a real possibility.

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  8. excellent! Nice to have you back in the blogger world! Cheers!

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  9. Thanks you everyone. gradually coming back!

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