La città delle donne







He doesn’t know us, nor does he want to. And that is his fatal error.

A world riddled with umbilical bonds and the recorded orgasms of Madonnae. Watching through square glasses, curtained windows and bedroom mirrors. They all break and the frames remain hollow. These are the final gasps of a man on his deathbed, fearful of purgatorium’s verdict: While we've been shut up in his harem, we've had the time to watch him. To observe our jailer; our lord. He once invented a woman, and out of her fourteen more were born. They were his metaphors, his hypotheses, his obscurities. They kept multiplying into a thousand mouths to smile and moan with. Armless Venuses against obelisks, to castrate, to comfort, to tuck in bed. Through the years, the chain of symbols lengthens, but the terrain remains the same. The maestro ages, his myths decay with him. We’ve found out about you. We know everything about you.Corroded, they fade before him, as he laughs ruefully through Marcello.
The artifact floats upwards; enormous. A projection only existing as conjunction. Anointed neon tiara, wrapped up in black net; the smiling, inflated Donatella swells with devastation. Distorted reflections of mirages in a hall of mirrors. You’re the clown, the Martian. You can't hide anymore. We've got you in close-up; rooted as you are, to the same desert earth. Shoot Her down and he goes down with it. A lifetime of staring at the shadows on the walls, not knowing they are mere imitations of reality. He cannot live with us anymore. He cannot live with himself. Climbed so far into the cave of representation, the light of the real blinds him. All the more tragic, he was the one that plucked his eyes out.

The naked dreamer, paralysed, shivers. Draw up your overcoat darling, settle back to sleep. Smick smack, smick smack and a bust of mama to kiss goodnight.

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