"This journal is not a mere literary diversion. The further I progress, reducing to order what my past life suggests, and the more I persist in the rigor of composition--of the chapters, of the sentences, of the book itself--the more do I feel myself hardening in my will to utilize, for virtuous ends, my former hardships. I feel their power." --Jean Genet
21 December 2013
Everybody's Darling
Isn't it odd to call a five year old child charismatic. And by this I am not referring any sinister energy. There is nothing of Damien/ nothing of the Omen; what is dark in the boy is the singed iris of his captivating gaze, the green of water that is deep and moving, the dancing flecks of gold at the bottom of the stream. And when the light is low, fading, it is the enchanting personage of my grown angel that I evoke; it is the
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