gender gap
art by Beryl Cook
Beryl Cook (1926-2008) was a popular British painter known for her wry and comical depictions of people enjoying themselves. Here she adds her own Nude on a Leopard Skin to a room where a pre-Zoom era poetry reading is taking place. The desk lamp offers even more eroticism.
Poetry reading minus Nude on a Leopard Skin Poetry reading on Zoom, free and open to all, minus Beryl Cook's Nude on a Leopard Skin (there being no wall), the host, five readers and forty odd audience, ready to begin— aside from me, women all . . . it happens then, a reader notices, says, say, where are all the men? You’re right, another says, so I raise my virtual hand. It's a shame, I say, there's no Nude on a Leopard Skin on this virtual wall, but aside from that, I, I for one, am surely a man . . . oh, there you are, we missed you on the screen. Thank you, she says, alan, reading my name, relieved I’ve been seen, I'm certain, as if I, minus Nude on a Leopard Skin, am all the men . . .




Quality not quantity. You can supply the cojones for an entire squad of men.
Marvellous