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In an Artist’s Studio One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans: We found her hidden just behind those screens, That mirror gave back all her loveliness. A queen in opal or in ruby dress, A nameless girl in freshest summer-greens, A saint, an angel—every canvas means The same one meaning, neither more nor less. He feeds upon her face by day and night, And she with true kind eyes looks back on him, Fair as the moon and joyful as the light: Not wan with waiting, not with sorrow dim; Not as she is, but was when hope shone bright; Not as she is, but as she fills his dream. ↗
When daylight is here i dream of the night, The stars of a country sky that shine so bright. A night sky without clouds, for the moon to hide under, Revealing every twinkle and every beam, of the Milky Way's wonder. I grow sad in the morning, And i pay the day no mind. Every time i see the light coming, I know the sunset's not far behind. ↗
A snake bites your ankle. Recoiling, you scream. Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream... ...where a man bites your ankle. Expecting no guile, "Again," softly falls from your lips with a smile. Yet, the man and the snake are the same. Your perception is only to blame. ↗
Healthy Choices Hold still Keep quiet. Get a degree to learn how to talk saying nothing. Catch a good man by being demure. the one your mother chooses. Let him climb you whenever his urge, amidst headaches and menstrual aches and screaming infants. And when he bids quick, turn over. Hold still. Make your tongue a slab of cement a white stone etched with your name. Kill your stories with knives and knitting needles and Clorox bleach. Hide in your mysteriousness by saying nothing. Starch your thoughts with ironed shirts. Tie your anger with a knot in your throat and when he comes without concern swallow it. Hold still. Keep desire hopeless as ice and sleepless nights and painful as pinched eyelid. Keep your fingers from the razor, keep your longing to sever his condescension safely in your douchbag. Turn the blade against yourself. Don't twitch as your slashed wrists stain your bathroom tiles. Disinfect with Pine Sol. Hold still. Keep quiet. Keep tight your lips, keep dead your dreams, keep cold your heart. Keep quiet. And he will shout praises to your perfection. ↗
Eines Tages betrachtete mein Freund sein Bild im Spiegel. Sah zu, wie perfekt sein Spiegelbild seine Grimassen und Verrenkungen nachmachte, wie vollkommen es die Wirklichkeit imitierte. Und er dachte: Ich will so werden wie dieses Wesen im Spiegel. Ich will genauso gut das Leben imitieren können. Ich will genauso einsam sein." Der Schattenkönig verstummte für einen Augenblick. "Klingt so, als ob dein Freund kurz davor war, den Verstand zu verlieren", rutschte es mir heraus. "So, als ob er mal den Kopfdoktor konsultieren sollte." Der Schattenkönig lachte schrecklich. "Ja, das dachte er auch manchmal. Aber die Krankheit erreichte nie dieses gnädige Ausmaß, das ihm den Aufenthalt in einer geschlossenen Anstalt eingebracht und die Arbeit erspart hätte. Zum Irren langte es nicht ganz. Nur zum Dichter. ↗
