Sense Sonnets

Friday, January 09, 2026

Sense Sonnet - Pumper

 Norman Rockwell's Gift


"The Babysitter," painting by

Norman Rockwell, he did give to

A school where a student did die

Young from leukemia, and who,

With her class, a visit had made

To Rockwell's studio the year

Before. Rockwell's painting portrayed

A baby shedding lots of tear,

While the babysitter, girl young,

Thumbs through a book on diaper change.

On a chair arm a diaper's hung.

This painting was uniquely strange.


Through the diaper he'd painted on,

Real safety pin he stuck upon.

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