A skittish financial advisor
held up his prescribed breathalyzer,
with anxiety, he took a puff,
but with weak nerves, it wasn’t enough,
for before him was the Dread Miser.

The master spoke, flashing incisors,
glad that his guest was none the wiser,
for tonight his meal was big enough:
a skittish financial advisor.

Grim Reaper, the great equalizer
broke skin and erupted a geyser 
of blood, which spattered across his cuff,
Dread Miser drinks ‘till he’s had enough–
what a wonderful appetizer:
a skittish financial advisor.

A grizzled marine navigator
had docked up his seaworthy freighter; 
the Dread Miser asked to hitch a ride,
the mariner let the man inside:
no more a man than alligator. 

O’ Death was a cold calculator,
a fiend, and a cruel fornicator.
This trip was surely suicide
for the grizzled marine navigator.

The sailor discovered the traitor:
a well-practiced flesh valuator.
The Dread Miser smiled and opened wide,
revealing horror, bona fide; 
And so, Death sent to his creator
a grizzled marine navigator.

The advisor’s poor mademoiselle
could not rest in the room where she dwelled.
Her husband’s death left her heart in pain
and diagnosed clinically insane–
for now, she foresees tales of hell.

In the hours which a deep midnight fell,
the lady felt strangely compelled,
so she waited by the window panes
as a voice called her name– Isabelle.

A lonesome boat bore a noxious smell,
so the churches sounded their death knells.
Out from the ship stepped a bloody bane;
the Dread Miser was to be her swain,
it was she who’d been under his spell:
the advisor’s poor mademoiselle.

 

Biography:

My name is John Quincy Thompson, and this is my second year at Aims now; I intend to transfer to RMCAD for an illustration degree sometime after this upcoming fall semester. Art has always been an outlet that has allowed me to experiment and grow, and it is a gift that I would like to share with the world. In particular, I quite enjoy drawing faces and the human figure– it is comprised of non-geometric shapes and is, overall, quite lumpy. I like that. Parts of the human body such as the ears, the nose, the hands and feet, teeth and gums, and fat rolls all pose a different challenge of depiction in comparison to geometric shapes like buildings that require a level of mathematical precision. Our bodies are these very strange blobs of flesh that simultaneously hold a relatively consistent canon of anatomy while also having absolutely no consistency whatsoever. I like how each body holds its own identity through its form– for this reason, I am also rather fond of the shapes found in nature such as flowers, trees, mountains, and water. I believe that art should be easily accessed by the public and should incite curiosity and complex thought, though not all art needs to be so serious– art should be fun! I am influenced a lot by manga and manhua, and I appreciate artists such as Kei Urana, Shiro Moriya, Jung-Man Cho, Motoi Yoshida, and Kim Sehoon.