You know women love poetry enormously
And men love style, harmony immensely
The hallucinatory and the pharaminous musicality of the words
An explosion of love can calm or appease the waters
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Ouçam, queridos amigos. Meu nome é Hébert.
Brierre, Vilaire, Laferrière, Césaire, Baudelaire,
E escrevo palavras bonitas,
E cerca de muitas coisas bonitas.
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Poetry is a naturally simple speech
Poetry is a well-organized speech
It is the profound expression of the soul
The digital or verbal dialect of the heart
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Money is not everything
It is the opportunity
To hold a job to make money
To make a lot of money
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Killing people over money is sad
Rioting is not the answer
Looting is not the answer
Shooting is not answer
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This is no joke. Some dictators
Want to have a referendum
And then amend the constitution
To incorporate eternal immunity
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Pretty darling, I am ignoring you today
Because you're trying, on Valentine's Day
To break my heart and badly destroy my soul
I'm looking the other way, because I'm no foul.
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Yo dije 'que te amo' esta mañana
Y tú respondiste: gracias
Te equivocaste cariño
Deberías haber dicho: yo también te amo.
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Haiti
Is a long ago
Kidnapped country
Before the parturition of the harmful bayonets
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