I know what you think of me.
A mildew manifesto on your pillow,
My head. A template for seduction.
Clinical. Nauseating. Recycling bodies.
The foreign odour. The song of the banal.
Absorbing you, absorbing us, eating me up.
You lie as you create and I pretend to like the obscene.
The gore that your body emulates and I
Holler even though I want to sing.
“Black and Red” by John White Alexander (1856-1915)
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Author of "Within Paravent Walls". Pentalingual Idealist. Hypercreative homebody. Self-exorcising Poetess. Creator of "Croque-Melpomene" & "Les Femmes de la Décadence".
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').
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