CITTA VIOLENTA

I shall never be bored or sad ever again.
Jacques Henri Lartigue

Each day marked by one
tense sun; a score to
tabulate days:
collect games, a pond,
air balloons, bedrooms.

(Belle Epoque wealth eludes war;
thus "magical games"; hence our
right to "play truant.")

Luxury is almost real.
Renee Perle,
Biarritz, '28.

Wrists wrapped in bangles;
legs, stockings; body
tanned, in fur,

- J.H.L: "my shadowless Paradise
seems invulnerable." Renee:
"No, I am not Mexican.

Romania.
My name is Renee.
I used to model at Doeillet."

Saw Cannes occupied,
Monaco destroyed:

"I was in Heaven, so
I said so:
ignorant as history
ignited around me."