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5.7.07
Hibernação

Tem dias

em que a lua é só um satélite,

uma criança é só um adulto que ainda não cresceu,

e uma flor

não passa de um vegetal.

Dias há em que meus chinelos

servem apenas

para proteger meus pés do frio

e da poeira que se acumula no chão da minha casa,

e minha escova de dentes

precisa tão-somente ser trocada.

Dias em que uma foto antiga

é só o registro de um momento

sem lembrança,

em que um telefonema no meio da noite

apenas perturba o sono,

e a música toca no rádio

nos intervalos das mensagens sem nexo dos locutores.

Em que um charuto apenas produz fumaça e mau-cheiro,

em que um cigarro não vai ser comprado porque não se fuma,

em que uma rosa precisa ser jogada fora porque apodreceu no vaso

e já começa a atrair insetos.

Tem dias em que uma garrafa de tequila custa caro demais,

em que a cachaça é intragável,

em que o vizinho toca a sua campanhia por engano,

em que se vai dormir com fome

porque a carteira está vazia.

Tem dias em que o Afeganistão é só um desenho no mapa,

em que Cuba é uma porção de terra cercada de água por todos os lados,

em que o lençol precisa ser posto na máquina de lavar

mesmo que não se tenha tido tempo de passar no supermercado

para comprar sabão em pó.

Dias existem em que é preciso secar os cabelos ao vento

somente porque a conta de luz está alta

e o secador consome muita energia.

Há dias…

há dias em que os famintos na África são tantos

e tão distantes

e tão inalcançáveis…

Dias em que as unhas não serão pintadas por falta de tempo

ou esmalte

ou acetona

ou tudo junto.

Dias em que um incenso é um palito flamejante com cheiro,

em que a TV é um objeto decorativo,

em que os livros na estante, idem.

Dias há, como este de inverno, em que leite não será tirado de pedra,

porque pedra não se fecunda.

Tem dias

em que a poesia dorme.


Posted at 5.7.07 by eulirico
liricaram!  

3.5.07
My empty garden

Love.

A plant –

If you remove it

from the earth

where it first grew

- but the roots are untouched

or at least preserved -

you can plant it somewhere else.

Nevertheless,

if you take it out

and cut the root,

it will

 - like the roses of a bridal bouquet -

decorate a room for a while.

Eventually, though,

fade,

meet its doom

(lifeless as it is),

and die

out.


Posted at 3.5.07 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

25.4.07
What you don’t understand is

I don't want a rich man.

If I wanted a rich man

I would have had one.

 

What you don't understand either

is that I don't want a mature man.

If I wanted a mature man

I would have had one.

 

I don't want someone to teach me.

Because if I wanted someone to teach me

I would have had... someone to teach me.

 

A guy to enrich with.

I don't want.

And I'm sure -

If I did

I would have had him!

 

Neither do I want a baby-maker

                              a peace-maker

                              a love-maker

                           a songwriter

                        a poet

                     an actor

                  a singer

               a playwright

            a heavy metal guitar player

         a sportsman

      an athlete

   one to promise me the world and give me nothing.

 

I want you.


Posted at 25.4.07 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

3.4.07
Letter to a man leaving his frightened wife for his intrepid lover

You're leaving me, I see.
You met someone
who's bold
and fearless
and doesn't carry a locked chest
with a million ghosts
like I do.
If you believe she'll make you happy,
which I hope she will,
go for her,
go for your felicity.
However,
allow me to utter
one or two words
of advice.

Don't depart trusting an illusion, sir:
she does have fears.
She may not show them now,
as she may never.
But unless she was not born from a woman
              and she is not from this planet
              and she's offered her brain to scientific experiment
              (which she'll never disclose to you)
all conditions coexisting
give this fearful woman a little credit:
she does have fears.

She may know how to solve her trouble
and tame her qualms
better then I do.
But, trust me,
eventually you'll see them
for they will show.

She will show.

And if she doesn't
you will wake up one day
asking yourself
why the heck the woman doesn't show!
Why is it that she spends so much time
with her girl friends
and some of her male friends
– which might make you jealous –
and her therapist
and her gardening teacher,
but does not show… to you.
She just won't consent that you see her through,
or sacrifice one single Monday morning
to stay home with you
and confess
– to you, to you alone! oh, Lord!, to you and no one else! – 
how the growing of the kids scares her
for she's ageing,
and how envious she is of the new artist
the gallery has hired,
so lovely, so full of life, so like she was twenty years ago!
and how she herself is running out of creative resources
and that little bastard will take her really-deserved and much-fought-for place!
And you will crave a moment of weakness!
Oh, yes! A minute when she's frail,
when you can just embrace her
and tell her the much told line
"Everything's gonna be all right"
and see her face enlighten
just for your saying
you love her
you love her wrinkles
you love her canvasses
– or whatever she does for a living! –
and, gosh!, how you would love to have her completely helpless in your arms,
crying like a baby,
letting you warm her
and protect her
from her own fears
she, the fearless woman!

Leave me, if this makes you happy,
and I hope it does,
but do not be fooled by the lure of the amazon riding an epic stallion,
for one day you shall realize
– even want! –
that she's just human by your side.

Go, yourself fearless and bold,
and be happy
and throw your chest of ghosts into the deep maritime blue of her eyes,
and don't deceive yourself
by supposing I do not root for your happiness.
No, sir, I do want you to be happy!
But I am just too human
not to talk.

Yours,
no longer…

X.


Posted at 3.4.07 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

20.3.07
ikinda

I
kinda miss you
kinda hate you
kinda love you desperately
kinda feel so indifferent it hurts
kinda think you and I are just right together
kinda realize I and you couldn't be more wrong side by side
kinda don't figure how all these feelings can co-exist in or invade one very same heart all at once
kinda thinking of you in the middle of an idle Tuesday afternoon can't help but feeling all horny
kinda mistrust you
kinda believe I know some of your meanings just by sensing
kinda feel so nice when we're talking, shagging, kissing, looking at each other's eyes or at some little monkey at a college garden.
I'm kinda... late now.
Gotta go.


Posted at 20.3.07 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

28.9.06
Fare-well

 

Don't take me wrong

but I don't love you anymore,

not the way I did,

not as passionately

as desperately

as eagerly

as before.

And I don't believe

you love me either.

I think you want to love me

but you don't really love me.

 

I'm always on your mind, you say

but I don't want to be in your mind.

I want to be in your heart.

Indeed

I don't want to be in your heart –

not as I ere did.

What I mean is

if I am to be in someone's organ

in someone's body

it's in the heart I want to dwell –

not in the mind.

I don't want anybody to think about me

I want somebody to feel me.

 

I do understand

you want somebody to love you

and protect you

and cherish you

and fight with you

and fight for you

and challenge you

and lean your legs when they shiver

and not let you down

and not let you get lost from yourself

and expose you to your own fears

– holding your hand while doing this –

and show you they are worth nothing

they are worth less than you are
and you are worth a lot!

You want somebody to know your dark side,

someone who can look at it

and not run away in fear or disgust

nor try to change you

but take you as you are

and live with that

and not accept what is not good for you

for you both.

 

You know what?

I want the same.

Because I, too, have a dark side

fears

wishes

pulsions of life and death

and I do want someone who fears them not

who shows me that even when nothing is all right

he still has me in his heart.

 

I do love you

a lot

loads

forever

more than I did anyone before

or yet to come (who knows?)

and I wish you the best

I wish you to find this person

who I could never be

who you never chose me to be.

 

I don't want to be the first

in anybody's life,

maybe the last one –

last first kiss

last first shag

last first everything

even if someone else gets in the way.

I want to be long-lasting

everlasting.

 

And I don't want to try.

I want to live.


Posted at 28.9.06 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

6.8.06
folhas amarelas

Quais são, dize-me, as folhas amarelas da tua árvore?

Aquelas que, ainda não mortas, ocupam o galho

que abrigará outras, verdejantes,

num futuro tão próximo

quanto incerto?

Quais as folhas que, amarelas, quase marrons, não deixas cair,

e seguir o destino das folhas caídas?

Te afeiçoaste às folhas ícteríticas?

Não as queres entre o lixo do mundo,

que as pisoteiem os que não as conheceram viçosas,

os que vêem na poeira e nas folhas amarelas

(que outrora vicejavam)

o mesmo chão sob seus desconsiderados pés?

Que folhas semi-mortas não queres deixar morrer
de vez,

curso natural e inevitável?

Quais folhas já amarelas, já pouco vivas,

queres, num processo frankensteiniano, usar

para compor tua nova – mas, não, será velha e pútrida! – árvore

de folhas quase mortas?


Posted at 6.8.06 by eulirico
liricaram!  

2.8.06
O inexorável costume ou O que a entrega epitelial faz com o amor da gente

ICH LIEBE DICH!!!

Ich Liebe Dich!

Ich liebe dich.

ich liebe dich

ich liebe dich…

nicht.


Posted at 2.8.06 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

31.7.06
Planos

Que cultivaremos, você e eu?

Que colheremos na safra?

Na entressafra – que haverá – que faremos?

Com que adubaremos a terra em que plantaremos?

O que plantaremos?

Em que solo?

Com que sementes o fecundaremos?

Às vezes quedo-me perguntadoira…


Posted at 31.7.06 by eulirico
eu lirico. tu liricas?  

Cansaço

Eu cansei

Tu cansaste

Nós cansamos –

Transitiva e intransitivamente.


Posted at 31.7.06 by eulirico
liricaram!  

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