... a city, as firstly the painting would take place in the artists studio and that they are "both poor". The physical descriptions of the narrator are unmistakably quite scathing, the narrator says how her "breasts hang slightly low" showing that she is not as young as she used to be, although I would not like to put an exact age on that. The narrator also says how she is also less voluptuous than she used to be, "You're getting thin Madame, this is not good." At the beginning of the poem the narrator also describes herself as "Belly nipple arse in the window light". Through this lack of punctuation it is as though the narrator knows that those are the things which the painter has desired, as though he does not care that she is a person, but merely an object for his to paint. Despite this, the narrator ...

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