Truth halts before your face. Dreams crash at your gates.
Sensitivity is a waste of time for you. You never listened.
Tears would make you scoff. You glowed unnaturally.
They attach themselves to you because they think you never
Fall apart. They don’t know you when you’re alone and disheartened.
I’ve witnessed life enveloping your face, and you, torturing it into submission.
You’re a doll with a smile that never wears off, you’re never touched, nor moved.
It takes an entire life to maintain artifice and death to liberate the remains.
Your lowland value system. You play by all the rules and never lose. And you
Make them admire you from afar. They adore the image you glue on your skin.
You hide yourself in your own miserable cellars and the truth never makes a sound.
A woman who murdered everything that makes her vulnerable is a girl no more.
“Dame in Gelb” by Max Kurzweil (1867-1916)
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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.
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