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NEW WORK. NOVEMBER 20. 2020-11-17
SELF PORTRAIT.
The pathological inability of the romantic
To accept life on ordinary terms. Sometimes
It is the potency of dreams, or nightmares
Refusing balance, for the lure of chaos.
Do not show me real life, ugliness, bad art,
Bad poetry. The dichotomy between
Dreams and reality, is a romantic notion
Of life. The egocentric, blind refusal
to see things as they truly are. This is the
gilded neurosis of the romantic
I am the model, the poster woman for
The excuse to create mayhem in the name
Of my own dyslexic sensibility. I who will
Scorn rules as I make my own.
A wildly out of control heart and mind
With a licence to kill.