And you let me go before I could hold on.
I sought refuge from you on your lap.
Girls are addicted to roundabouts and dead ends.
We slam our heads against the bars that hold us
And hope to make the universe collapse.
That’s where our strength lies, in our minds. And you
Rock my body back and forth and I’m a woman before I know it.
You whistle and howl and give me a million different names.
And who said that I had to listen to you?
Who offered you all that silly power?
Was it me and my momentary desire, my heart that knew better?
I share my body with you and your organs have nothing to say.
You’re a boat committed to a crumbling sea and who knows?
Maybe I’ll let you live, or struggle, play with you.
If I wouldn’t have intervened, I would’ve forgotten my own name.
Reaction is my language.
I knew hers was rotten before she even opened her mouth.
I kissed her anyhow.
To silence her and her useless thoughts.
I wouldn’t allow penetration.
A soul in return for a floating wreck.
” The Anonymous Medium Lily Disgeistes” by Albert von Keller (1844-1920)
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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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