Who but my friend Daniel
could have painted
such a lifelike portrait
of himself as a young man
reclining naked in the bath
and unlike his many paintings
of the fairer sex in similar
attire (or non attire)
this one shows him
with his privates coyly covered
with a bathtub toy
a rubber ducky
which my wife found so hilarious
it soon became
the best joke of the evening