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She’s waking, and she’s walking out the door She leaves the glimmer of the red-brick, In 2009, the first. In 2023, the last. The blood is on her hands, and she can feel a white blanket envelop her. It is the first sensation she has felt in years. Mercurial and self-loathing are those tears. No more release in them. Only release in that. In this prison cell are mirrors; they glare back at her with such a hideous, emaciated, mortifying Look on her face. What she hears seems to salivate, She, a ****** mouth of a teeth-grinder. Sore. Did they see her face as the telephone rang? The woman clothed in sun weeps with fury at her, with a mask of complete, deadly, damning indifference. It is so, so sorry; waves of anguished apologies flooded its lungs as he strangled it. The blade is for you, my dear girl. As they came together, they came apart. A hand, gloved in red;something in the way. It’s a knell for this lady in red, and, oh! How she has been waiting so! The troops of glares and deafening silence she cannot bear as she races towards them; they stampede over her. She does not battle. She does not cry. She does not raise a finger. She simply lets the curtains fall. Ophelia drowns.
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Feb 9, 2024
Feb 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM UTC
Modern Ophelia.
She’s waking, and she’s walking out the door She leaves the glimmer of the red-brick, In 2009, the first. In 2023, the last. The blood is on her hands, and she can feel a white blanket envelop her. It is the first sensation she has felt in years. Mercurial and self-loathing are those tears. No more release in them. Only release in that. In this prison cell are mirrors; they glare back at her with such a hideous, emaciated, mortifying Look on her face. What she hears seems to salivate, She, a ****** mouth of a teeth-grinder. Sore. Did they see her face as the telephone rang? The woman clothed in sun weeps with fury at her, with a mask of complete, deadly, damning indifference. It is so, so sorry; waves of anguished apologies flooded its lungs as he strangled it. The blade is for you, my dear girl. As they came together, they came apart. A hand, gloved in red;something in the way. It’s a knell for this lady in red, and, oh! How she has been waiting so! The troops of glares and deafening silence she cannot bear as she races towards them; they stampede over her. She does not battle. She does not cry. She does not raise a finger. She simply lets the curtains fall. Ophelia drowns.
Lady-in-rouge
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Feb 9, 2024
Feb 9, 2024 at 6:27 AM UTC
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