12-29-2010, 04:41 AM
When I read the name Perelli, I thought in my pretension that s/he might be an Italian artist or philosopher, thus I was highly amused to learn from Google that she is in fact a buxom model. This of course explained the title of the piece and made the meaning more potent; a darkly funny poem, strange and bitter and nicely written.
For some reason it reminds me of the South American novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose fiction is littered with these kinds of characters.
For some reason it reminds me of the South American novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, whose fiction is littered with these kinds of characters.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe