The lights are always on in the villa
with the black awnings and in
the rooms of the rear building
where you never see anyone
The tourists coming here, must be
a cover, it is a quiet hotel
Sometimes someone plays the piano -
a clear tension in the night
The whole situation makes me think
of acts that I know from films
and wish to experience
only that way:
a beautiful man who desires me
with whom I can do everything, veiled
in the middle, surrounded by lust
and pleasure as a second skin
"Rooms for Tourists" (1945, Edward Hopper)
Book "Traumnovelle" ("Rhapsody: A Dream Novel" / "Dream Story", 1925, Arthur Schnitzler)
Film "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999, Stanley Kubrick)
Collection "NightWatch"