Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

The Blindman's Meal, 1903
Oil on canvas
95.25 x 94.62 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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(After seeing Picasso´s "The Blind Man´s Meal")

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The blue translucence bodies forth his world´s dim monotone

Upon the anonymous square of table the sightless meal

The napkin spread beside the empty plate.

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The face portrays the hunger´s hum

The blind and reaching lips move toward the smell

The blind neck turns to lean

Stretched and unnourished like the eyes.

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One hand caresses broken bread

One hand stretched out, the fingers feeling for the wine

Elbows and forearms, firm on the table

Balance the blind silence

Give direction to the mute unguided dark.

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The blind man´s lips commune with guessed-at wine

Murmuring his soul´s need

Loved voices at the table´s loneliness.

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There is no calloused line in this whole face

Resigned, he sits his unmolesting bitterness

His tamed profile, his uncounting heart.

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Hy Sobiloff ( 1912-1970)

In the Deepest Aquarium

New York, 1959 Dial Press

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For more information on this painting: http://www.metmuseum.org

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