João Tomaz Parreira Poems

We shouldn’t
let the predictable key
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«When can I go into the supermarket»
Allen Ginsberg
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When will I be able to go to Safeway
with this heart in my hand?
I will pay for the wine and the milk
flaunting my boldness.
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Everything that comes after
the fire, will be the substance
of the ash;
what comes after the storm,
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The fire that sleeps
in my heart's volcano
began rising
like a rose,
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The lion will not be quicker than the ox
in pasture search,
the lamb and the bird
will be a poetical form,
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In the cafe A Brasileira do Chiado
sat the plural Pessoa
Fernando with laughter shaking his lips.
They waited for words to pass among them
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