I do not understand why all poets should write about love. Take love, bring love, give it but never write about it, because silence is the best poem you could create, a sign of respect and bewilderment. My mom used to tell me “don’t you ever accumulate written evidence of your most obscure desires”, but I do, mom, and I do not really know if I want you to give away my writings to the flames when I am no longer breathing. I am drowning in my desire, all the splintered lyres are crawling to my bed.
I wear poisons as perfumes,
I drink gold,
I feel outrageous when I am naked. I do not need shoes because my feet miss the Brazilian fields.
There are those who feel peace between severed limbs, there are those horses who wander in the batterfields when the fighting is over, there are haters who think they can rule the world, but they cannot rule mine! And there is people who kiss their children good night and overnight they are wasted in the gutters.
- Victoria Bardot

