The hideous vipers' knot of blood connections

Violette dreamt of milky baths
Of gorgeous gowns of fresh bread
Of gorgeous gowns of pure blood
One day there will be no more fathers
In the gardens of youth
There will be strangers
All the strangers
Men for whom you are always brand new
And the very first
Men for whom you can escape from yourself
Men for whom you are nobody's daughter
Violette dreamt of undoing
and undid
The hideous vipers' knot of blood connections


Paul Éluard, quoted in Sarah Maza's Violette Noziere: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris
Thanks Jessa