I’ve been hearing your heartbeat inside of me
I keep your photo right beside my bed
Livin’ in a world of fanticies
I can’t get you out of my headI’ve been waiting for the phone to ring all night
Why you want to make me feel so good
I got a love of my own
Shouldn’t get so hung up on youI remember the way that we touched I wish I didn’t like it so much
I get so emotional, baby
Every time I think of you
I get so emotional, baby
Ain’t it shocking what love can do
Ain’t it shocking what love can do-Billy Steinberg / Tom
Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window.
There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle.
What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane.
In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.Across the ocean of roofs I can see a middle-aged woman, her face already lined, who is forever bending over something and who never goes out.
Out of her face, her dress, and her gestures, out of practically nothing at all, I have made up this woman’s story, or rather legend, and sometimes I tell it to myself and weep.If it had been an old man I could have made up his just as well.
And I go to bed proud to have lived and to have suffered in some one besides myself.
Perhaps you will say «Are you sure that your story is the really one?»
But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?
Charles Baudelaire
Exercise focused on Visual Poetry and the application as Advertising Photography for a real label: General Óptica.
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