You harvest my dead skin under your nails.
And I would fight and screech and climb walls.
You raised me in your image and neglected me.
Was this the way you treated women, seduced them?
By rendering them invisible, salivating on decapitated
Bodies? And you brought me here, hungry and thirsty.
Incomplete, I never ceased to claim my remedy from you.
Were you ashamed when you saw me for the first time?
How long did your affection last?
At what point did I make you despise me?
Was I able to speak?
Your revolt must have happened quickly.
I never comprehended who you were.
The whiplashing tongue.
The man who revels in his own tragedy.
Pretending to be the master of his insecurities.
Narcissistic theatrics, the face a shifting puzzle.
I can’t stand to look at you, those demanding eyes.
You overeat and it is my flesh. I didn’t know the size of my heart.
And you fuck them all and maybe I imitate them blindly.
I hunt you down in miniatures and try to run
Away from something that I carry in my own body.
“An Angel in green with a vielle” by Circle of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) / Francesco Napoletano (1470-1501)
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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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