It’s easy to pretend that you’re lighthearted, it attracts the wrong crowds.
They’ll need you, eat you up, they might just be like you behind your mask.
The idle way of not being who you are. The romanticism on your skin, the
Stainless criminal, the deadening storyteller. I stand close to your periphery and search
For the clockwise truthteller. You’re overthinking yourself, once confined, you turn
Masochistic, unsustainable, everything about you, I run my fingers through the
Rhythm of your fake analogies and you blend in with your own extortion.
You water yourself down, enraged, you stare at me, holding back your tears, unrevealed.
Hunting my weaknesses, exposed, laid bare, barren, I sucked them dry, and I concentrate
On your face that searches freedom more than anything from everything outside of its
Endangered lines and surrenders to an unachieved self-idolisation.
“Henry Clay and Helen Frick (cropped)” by Edmund Charles Tarbell (1862-1938)
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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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