"Relax and Slip Your Pronouncing Eyes Like Cake..."
(Kirstin Dunst as Marie Antoinette)
Marie Antoinette is known for her love of cake, but did you know she is also famous for inventing the flea market? Well, sort of.
Legend has it that she was standing high above the place that would be known as Les Puces de Paris--The Paris Flea Market, looking down upon the crowd when she remarked "Oh but they look like little fleas." Or something like that.
Whether or not this really happened, one thing that is for certain true is the long and rich history of The Paris Flea Market, and all of its progeny.
*This line of poetry is from:
A Domestic Film
by Amy King
This is the director’s cut,
a traveling space in the folded crook
of your plotted hand like silver night
on a thousand platters spreading westward,
then plywood. I watch the brittle flower spread,
almost mobile with her walking petal plans—
Feminine form to feminine prone,
relax and slip your pronouncing eyes
like cake, only softer and heated, across
the unmarried wife waving goodbye
to the silent screen world of strangers
safely baking on Dishwater Island.
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