Similitude at Versailles
2013; Colorado State University; Volume: 40; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/col.2013.0071
ISSN2325-730X
Autores Tópico(s)French Literature and Critical Theory
ResumoSimilitude at Versailles Sandra Simonds (bio) Welcome to Humanities 203. Here you will find the mysterious death of the honeybee, the Byzantine emperor, Justinian, who made church and state a seamless whole. Quiz tomorrow. When someone dies, you buy their relatives flowers.1-800-FLOWERS. As a result your driving privilege will be suspended indefinitely on 11/13/2012. Where's mommy? I said I was trying to write this poem for the day, do you mind?The Real Ghostbusters will return after these messages. The trap's ready.I can get a girlfriend anytime I want. On the toddler bed, wrapped in the felt blanket with monkeys printed all over it, their prehensile tails curled— I promise guys, I'll never let myselfget carried away by women again. I want pancakes. Hey, Sandra, I think Charlotte might be hungry. I'll be there in a second. Okay, I'll just feed her now. —what could pass as love inside capital? Maybe just these records, the real. At the Halloween festival my friend dressed her child as one of the 1%. Ezekiel was a pirate. Her little girl threw fake bills into the air. She dancedin her suit and fake mustache. Thought— it will only ever snow $ in Florida [End Page 147] and you seemed more like the bas-relief,the minor key, some detail about Louis XIV'S weak blood that I always forget to teach, and for a moment I had become the anarchy of the sea—you know how the wavesare always pounding out some polyphony in saltwater, algae and fish that their subjects cannot understand. [End Page 148] Sandra Simonds Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008), Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Press, 2012), House of Ions (Bloof Books, 2014), and The Glass Box (Saturnalia Books, 2015). Copyright © 2013 Center for Literary Publishing
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