JG Correa

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Please allow me to introduce myself.
Usually loud, cynical and obnoxious I have been around for a very long score.
I am the undertaker of institutions,
I rather stir up trouble than keep quiet.
...

The night is singing with sighs of love
From its corridors, rays of light pattern magnetic nanodots
I cross the night
Suffering from love's pain
...

What freedom can dispense with proper critique
When outsourced cult opinions struggle by?
Which impartial critic is without archetypes
And clichés drawn from vernacular maligners?
...

AURORA VALERIANA

In Paul Valéry, the morose confusion
Works dreamlike, dissipating from the rose
...

When I watched Alain Resnais' "Night and fog"
I was only a teenager film buff.
Distant, scarce and fallacious was my business
With hunger, death, destruction, pain or war!
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He wakes up in infinite, condensed satin.
He likes fireplace mantles famished in granite.
The best honey is a tasted kiss, and
Pure poetry is prototype candidness
...

Let us wander about the streets of Noto,
and think upon what is a thought made of.
An ultimate regard to its trees' stillness
must evoke treasured vedute unburied.
...

All the paths converge to the metropolis.
Love's ways, however, reach up to the infinite.
At the extremity of the fog, stores,
and stairs travel to the upper plateaus
...

I could not stand withered rimes any more.
So, I went searching for a full-blown teacher,
A sensible scholar of proven age,
A sound retainer of past ages' wisdom,
...

Once upon a time a prince came to rescue
His beloved imprisoned in a tower
As he galloped a black stallion, the maiden
Intact, produced an immaculate handkerchief,
...

While destinies are connected by the traffic
bodies are drained by avenues, streets, slopes,
viaducts, tree-lined lanes, tunnels and bridges.
Lest answers come from the dark, lights shall signal
...

POINTLESSLY
GRADUALLY
CASUALLY
TEDIUM
...

As I invoked the brightness of intelligence,
the cosiness of antiquated boroughs
workèd dreamlike in my mind, and arose
the heraldic point of the sun's emergence
...

Among my ancestors, Toussaint Grugel
has always been a most curious subject.
Grugel was a 16th Century Frenchman
who travelled to, and settled down in Rio.
...

JG Correa Biography

A LITTLE PORTMANTEAU OF NOCTURNAL PASSIONS (US$9,99 @ amazon.com) includes 25 poems plus 52 haiku. Among them 'How tiresome a little portmanteau of heavy slogans is': Mr Correa was born in Rio de Janeiro, to Brazilian parents, lived in the UK during the 1970s and in the U.S. during the 1980s. He wrote 'Efabulações de aprendiz', 'Aurora Valeriana', 'A Little Portmanteau of Nocturnal Passions', 'The Passage of Time', 'Distopia & Sensibilidade', 'Portraiture', 'Retratos de Aprendiz', 'Um Filme Não É Um Filme', 'Do Studio System ao Formato CGI', 'Unflashy, ; Matter-of-fact Flash Fiction', 'No Pretério Mais Que Imperfeito' plus a number of prefaces or introductions. He has also been into print media, short-wave radio broadcasting, translating, cultural programming, teaching, and TV talk-show hosting. As a screenplayer he penned two scripts, namely 'Desenho industrial' and 'Paraty: Impressões'. As a compiler, he edited José L Grunewald's 'Escreviver' (Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo,2008) , and 'O Grau Zero do Escreviver' (Ed. Perspectiva, São Paulo,2002) . Mr. Correa is a random blogger, and a disappointing tennis player. A fine bridge player, though. He is not currently writing an aesthetics treaty. And FYI he is heartly opposed to being politically correct.)

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Please Allow Me To Introduce Myself

Please allow me to introduce myself.
Usually loud, cynical and obnoxious I have been around for a very long score.
I am the undertaker of institutions,
I rather stir up trouble than keep quiet.
I fight the very notion of propriety
favouring unpunished loot.
I base decisions on hearsay opportunism.
Underneath my carpet I sweep bribes and kickbacks.
I absolutely deny meritocracy.
I submit to pressure in politics.
So when you meet me I don't mind some courtesy,
sympathy, taste and - why not - politesse.
I failed to attend top stately school campuses.
Nevertheless I belong to nobility.
I should like to think that I am sort of politically-correct.
Though not the bane of anyone's existence I served no criminal sentences.
Cole Porter might have put it this way:
in a Bond movie I am Martini shaken rather than stirred.
On a tray I am the ashes from a cigar smoked by El Coma Andante.
In fashion I am a commie red beret.
In philosophy I am truth mitigated.
In chemistry I am cheap soda & lime.
in astronomy I am definitely a black hole.

What is puzzling you? Perhaps the nature of my game?

bottom line

I am simply your bête noire
the one who brought dejection to mankind.

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