That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for June 05, 2023

Instead of buying paper, Maria went straight to the source.

Next step is to chop it down and mail it to her lover.

Kathleen, leaving a note on her lover.

Susie had never spoken directly to a young man, but she went to great lengths to convince her friends that she had indeed “made a mash.”

It’s going to take me ages to dig out his initials. He’s such an embarassment he could run for offfice. No one can know we were together.

Was this before or after “Dirty Jobs”?

((“What’s his name again?”))

She is about to carve out her niche.

“For a good time …”

Testing new markets, Midge left her number beyond bathroom walls

Excellent, Steve!

So Ishmael isn’t back yet. I have to wonder why suddenly a lot more people have “disappeared” from the comments. Why the sudden crack down and why is it no one seems to know what’s going on? Algorithms Smalgorithms….I think Elon Musk must be at the bottom of all this!/s

Phyllis’ phallic phantasy

Eve wanted to thank Satan for the new threads but the fallen angel was in hell, so she carved her gratitude’s into the tree of knowledge.

Evelyn wanted to prove her parents wrong, she wasn’t just another dumb sorority girl, so she set off to label everything in the backyard. She hesitated as she tried to remember how to spell “tree”.

She thinks that she shall never see/ a surface tempting as a tree/ a tree upon which she may scrive/ her thoughts- while it is still alive/ and when some day that tree must fall/ to make way for a shopping mall/ the name she thereupon has writ/ will, like the tree, have up and “split”.

My first thought was “Why is she tailoring a dress in the woods?” since the moss/lichen on the trunk appeared to mirror the flow of her dress… at least to me.

I decided to erase my apartment number……………..

A columnist writing an article for that pre-Internet social site, Barkfeed.

She’s gone through so many boyfriends that she inscribes her lover’s names in pencil.

“I’ll carve my initials and those of all of my potential suitors…Hmmm. Should’ve started at the top.”

This ent’s tattoo artist is very exclusive, charges high rates, and flaunts her success. That’s why he hired her.

An amazing depiction of satin drapery.

An internet friend had a dog named Barksy. He was a good dog….

Young woman writing on a tree: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Martín Rico" site=commons.wikimedia.org 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string femme, and click its link for info and links that point to more info (perhaps best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translated most webpages if necessary) about this roughly legal paper size painting.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3142 (June 4, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, first work by him used here.

hoping to impress, Susan wore her best dress, but Mr. Tree was not titillated in the slitest.also, Susan was slightly far sited.

They all are poets, they don’t knowit but their feet showit, they’re longfellows…

Apparently, there is a 51st way to leave your lover.

This is another of several Masterpieces for which all of my original Comments (and Replies to others) were deleted by GoComics and not later restored. Nearly a year later I’ve decided to do my best to recreate at least one response for each of those paintings:

/// She has written a name on this tree.

It’s “ROBERTO,” placed where she can see.

Carmen marks the location

of each feigned defloration

as an aid to her poor memory.

/// She has lain with a great many men

under nearly each tree in this glen.

In response to their urgin’

she’d proclaim, “I’m a virgin!”

That same lie worked again and again.

/// She picks lovers with passion, but gentle,

and such men tend to be sentimental.

If they’re back at this spot

and his name she forgot,

it would be, at the least, detrimental.