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Thursday, May 14, 2020

Villanelle


I'm a big fan of Killing Eve at the moment. One of the characters is called Villanelle and she's an assassin. I thought it would be cool to write a villanelle (poem) about Villanelle (the character). I'm also drawing her a bit (as above), just for fun.

“Keep your friends close…”
-          after Killing Eve

She said the paintings were very boring
whilst casing the ‘dam with “pal” Konstantin.
Keep your friends close and enemies closer.

The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers she
sent to Eve as a postcard valentine.
The other paintings had been very boring.

In Paris she broached a tentative “we”
and was stabbed, her bed the scene of the crime.
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.

Never one to welcome orders, when he
told her to sit still, Peel ran out of line.
To her, such dead things were very boring.

Before the shooting in Rome they were free
to be together. She said, “You are mine!”
Keep your friends close and enemies closer.

Did she love or despise Eve Polastri?
Would this artful obsession prove sublime?
She found caricatures very boring,
knew to keep friends close, enemies closer.

Orla Fay



* the ‘dam refers to Amsterdam


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