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Violenza Sessuale
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64 Violenza Sessuale There is a man with a purple beard— a viola (in Italian) beard. A viola (in English) under his chin. He is playing a song full of violence, his head bobbing, his purple whiskers tangled in the strings. He whispers, “violenza sessuale,” a sensual violence, an Italian euphemism for rape. He is Bluebird, but purple. He is purple prose with a Purple Heart even though his bow saws away at the viola’s strings, saws away at his own wounds and hers, until there isn’t music anymore. ...