The Thin Line
It wasn’t a fall from grace, her unblinking eyes urged all. Not just another wretched rich woman suicide. Not another bid for evoking pity...! But instead, they chose to see the loss, the grief, the failure that had become she. Frida only held a mirror to Dorothy. But even she couldn’t fulfill her last wish.
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With trembling hands she scratched them off one by one. Jaywalking into a bus. Free falling from her 25th floor penthouse. Drowning in the bathtub. Slashing…no too cliché. ODing on valium – a definite maybe. But there was no painless death, was there? Her last entry in the journal read: “I’ll live to see him regret.”
posted by ironyofdparadox at 2:34 pm
3 Comments:
Interesting place you have here.
:| Why are you linking pictures of art relating to suicide? :| Gosh...never thought a migraine will do that to someone...GOSH.......Poyee toonguuuuu
@Sanjay: Glad you think so. Feel free to swing by. Also, adjectives like 'interesting' are always welcome... so, go nuts...:)
@shobha: It wasn't the migrane gurl... Suicide of Dorothy Hale happens to be one of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's paintings that I like... more so for the artist's chutzpah than anything else. Frida was commissioned to do this painting by a close friend of Dorothy, the woman portrayed in the painting (yup, she was an actual person!)Instead of painting a typical over-the-fireplace rosy portrait, Frida created this in-your-face interpretation - this haunting image of a woman plummeting to her fate - that left everyone shocked! She had painted reality and not a representation of it, as they'd have wished her to. That's why, I like this painting and ...the 55-fiction I wrote was obviously inspired by it 2!
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