waiting

“I was waiting for
something extraordinary to
happen

but as the years wasted on
nothing ever did unless I
caused it…”

Charles Bukowski

casas

Oh as casas as casas as casas

Oh as casas as casas as casas

as casas nascem vivem e morrem

Enquanto vivas distinguem-se umas das outras

distinguem-se designadamente pelo cheiro

variam até de sala pra sala

As casas que eu fazia em pequeno

onde estarei eu hoje em pequeno?

Onde estarei aliás eu dos versos daqui a pouco?

Terei eu casa onde reter tudo isto

ou serei sempre somente esta instabilidade?

As casas essas parecem estáveis

mas são tão frágeis as pobres casas

Oh as casas as casas as casas

mudas testemunhas da vida

elas morrem não só ao ser demolidas

Elas morrem com a morte das pessoas

As casas de fora olham-nos pelas janelas

Não sabem nada de casas os construtores

os senhorios os procuradores

Os ricos vivem nos seus palácios

mas a casa dos pobres é todo o mundo

os pobres sim têm o conhecimento das casas

os pobres esses conhecem tudo

Eu amei as casas os recantos das casas

Visitei casas apalpei casas

Só as casas explicam que exista

uma palavra como intimidade

Sem casas não haveria ruas

as ruas onde passamos pelos outros

mas passamos principalmente por nós

Na casa nasci e hei-de morrer

na casa sofri convivi amei

na casa atravessei as estações

Respirei – ó vida simples problema de respiração

Oh as casas as casas as casas


Ruy Belo

cama

Tracey Emin

ternura

(não compreendo quem consegue viver sem ternura.)

...an honourable man

ANTONY

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus
Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault,
And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it.
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest--
For Brutus is an honourable man;
So are they all, all honourable men--
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
He was my friend, faithful and just to me:
But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
He hath brought many captives home to Rome
Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious?
When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff:
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal
I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,
But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause:
What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him?
O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;
My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.

Shakespeare, Julius Caesar