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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