jia shuixing Poems

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1.
To Love

what can a creature do, if not -
among other creatures -
to love?
to love and to forget,
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2.
In Compliment Of Shadows

Old age (as others call it)
may be the time of our bliss.
The animal has died or almost died.
Man and his soul remain.
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3.
Fourth Motive Of The Rose

don't be afflicted by the flowing petal
it's also being, this way to cease to be

you'll still see roses, curled up in ashes
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4.
Desapareco Em Palavras Medianas

e processos simbolicos incompletos
(o verso livre e a revolucao industrial, o obvio e a meta-poesia -
falhas da visao espacial, rompendo o proprio ser que via)
repletos de modicos recessos contra a dor.
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5.
Aprendendo A Tomar No Cu

a menina de jogar saco
o muleque que tirava sarro
a tia da casa de barro
pagando pipoca emprestado
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6.
Snap

to think that every single time you thoughts are slashed

with every stunted shattered night, every sighting of encompassing absurd
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7.
Unipolar Rupture

she was the one that taught me the supreme, life-saving skill:
when the storm rages -
and it rages all the time,
the world is always in collapse outside.
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8.
NanĂ£ Buruku's Wetland Cypress (Inhotim)

reading was safe when everything else was harm -
and the library is now on fire

so then!
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9.
Ritual To Saturno Yeye Or Close Ghosts

you burn something and intone the names of everyone you've lost

you make light a bit
and the laughter is almost as unbearable as the pain
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10.
Another Ritual

you build an altar, you find a quiet place
or maybe a place so noisy and intense and full of life and light that it can hold you in distraction, you'll need a while

you set out your best satins
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