I wondered how high she could fly.
And how many lies would get her there.
We disentangled forcefully.
A dreadful dance, cut in half.
It had happened before and it would happen again.
The replaced face, character, the superimposed attention.
When you started to mould I walked away.
I had never seen you clearly.
I had transformed you before you opened your mouth.
Maybe I never wanted to know you.
Disappointment, a constant companion.
We would wound each other without realising it.
I don’t know what I was looking for,
Every moment spent with you emptied me.
You were an illusion I created.
I buried all the red flags.
I rendered your intentions angelic.
And crawled into you to hide from the world.
Become a part of something, someone.
Unleash who I truly was.
I didn’t understand that I repeated all the patterns.
Until you imprisoned me.
And I recognised a familiar signature.
I came close to the devil once more.
“Las hijas del Rey Lear” by Gustav Pope (1831-1910)
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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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