Rene Devote Dies, Havana 1954

Reblogged from The Mirror Obscura:


Should anyone be interested or care Rene Devote is dead.

Her life was an unimportant one.


A drunk, an addict, prostitute. A mother

Unfit to raise a child.

She lived out her days slumped over

The bar of a thousand dives around the world.

Every evening she fell in love

For Fifteen minutes,

Nine or ten times a night--dreaming

Of being taken…


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Published on November 02, 2013 10:31
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