Gonçalo Manuel Tavares Biography

There are no precious stones, there are no safes,
nor buried treasures to play pirates.
None talks with each other - dumb, you'll say, or uninterested.
The elements here present have certain colours,
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In childhood the Sun was a taller companion,
appearing first on the football pitch, and there, standing still,
it guarded the back of the nets and the grass that grew warmer.
As if the sun were in fact a cooking utensil, matter
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In the morning, when I went past the shop
the dog barked
and didn't viciously attack me because its iron chain
prevented it.
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it's evident we can explain.
it's evident we can conclude.
it's evident we can cure
it's evident we can open 1 practice and say: PAY!
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the woman has the chemistry of animals and the pollen of plants,
and she steals from the Great Soul its Appetite in order to multiply things that are born.
Infection is calm.
If a flower could fly it would lose its scent;
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