He wormed his sex into her body
Similar to a raging ringmaster
Whose eyes were taught to eat her alive,
Hands that inherited possessions.
The tongue he spoke in cornered her at the surface.
She’d nod without uttering a sound,
Mimicking a thousand gestures all at once,
A generational womankind firework that burst in manifold directions.
Unreflected. A never-ending puddle.
And she’d dance adapting her needs to his steps.
He convinced her that she owned his heart.
And whilst he frolicked within her body
She drowned in his transient pleasure.
This is what my mother gave me.
These are the rotten words of my father
Coming back to plague me.
And after he vacated her body forever and forevermore,
And he’d only haunt her in the suppressions of her brain,
Her body absorbed letters, stories and sentences,
Entering another stage of emotions attached to everything
That happened between them, when she was young and he seemed
Old, and she’d maybe never realise that she wasn’t immune to anything.
“In de speelgoedwinkel” by Antonio Mancini (1852-1930)
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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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