In 2022 a tourist visiting a museum
in Madrid damaged an artwork when
she tripped while trying to take a selfie
with the work. It was torn by the tourist,
who fell on the exhibit.
Stumbledy bumbledy,
tourists in galleries
might, on occasion, be
clumsy and slip;
sometimes a traveler
selfie-obsessively
finds herself having a
terrible trip.
Mumbledy grumbledy,
furious curators
shouldn’t have callously
called her a jerk;
all she was doing was
opportunistically
trying to capture a
real piece of work.