There is so much clutter between us, nothing flows.
There is no room, neither for you, nor for me.
You are stuck and bang your head against your own walls.
I can’t breathe, the air you release is intoxicating.
It reminds me of death and self-loathing.
You tried to mould me, climb on my shoulders,
Dominate me from above, center stage, my thoughts.
You hold on to my ears and embalm them with your distorting
Voice that misreads everything, misleads, me, entirely.
You’re never empty-handed, you take what you need.
You adopt innumerable forms up there where I
Can’t see you. You shove down my eyelids and preach to me,
How much I need you, how good and kind you are to me.
You are so heavy, and we become one, and the dread spreads through my skin.
You unloaded everything onto me, our shadows: one deformed darkness.
“Portrait of Miss Elizabeth Greenway” by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
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My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker.
I am the creator of "Croque-Melpomene: Femalecentric Poetry" and I have a YouTube channel carrying the same name.
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