I Wasn't Convinced A Shop Girl Would

The Sweetness That All Longed For Night And Day. Some Tragedy Might Be Idly Guessed At-loss Or Illness. She Had The Luminosity Of Those About To Die.

I Wasn't Convinced A Shop Girl Would Know The Word 'oedipal.

Children Seldom Have A Proper Sense Of Their Own Tragedy, Discounting And Keeping Hidden The True Horrors Of Their Short Lives, Humbly Imagining Real Calamity To Be Some Prestigious Drama Of The Grown-up World.

Madness Might Sometimes Give Access To A Kind Of Knowledge. But Was Not A Guarantee.

I Never Had, Or Wished For, Power Over You. That Isn't True, Of Course. I Wanted The Greatest Power Of All. But Not Advantage, Or Authority.