I want to please everybody.
I am always nice to everybody.
I let them kick me and talk to me the way they want.
I’m always polite and say “thank you”.
I smile when I want to scream, when I want to cry.
I never get the same tone back that I give away.
And as soon as you break the cycle, you are the meanest of them all.
A good girl can never slip.
She needs to be consistent.
No matter how bad people treat her,
She needs to remain who she pretends to be.
They rely on her niceties so that they can remain a horror show.
As soon as she cracks, she is villainised.
What she gives, people never give it back.
“Nellie Melba as Ophelia in the opera Hamlet ” by Henri Gervex (1852-1929)
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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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