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Adília Lopes

Pleasures and displeasures

Pleasures and displeasures
lead to the poem
as they might lead
to the precipice
the poem speaks of the precipice
where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth
and there won’t be Kleenex
or Dr. Abílio Loff
my dear dentist
the poem speaks of the precipice
averted in the nick of time
a bad poem kills no one
(a living donkey is worth more
than a dead wise man)

Pleasures and displeasures

Os gostos e os desgostos
levam ao poema
como podem levar
ao precipício
o poema fala do precipício
lá haverá choro
e ranger de dentes
e não haverá Kleenex
nem o Dr. Abílio Loff
o meu querido dentista
o poema fala do precipício
evitado a tempo
o mau poema não mata
(mais vale burro vivo
que sábio morto)
Adília  Lopes

Adília Lopes

(Portugal, 1960)

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Pleasures and displeasures

Os gostos e os desgostos
levam ao poema
como podem levar
ao precipício
o poema fala do precipício
lá haverá choro
e ranger de dentes
e não haverá Kleenex
nem o Dr. Abílio Loff
o meu querido dentista
o poema fala do precipício
evitado a tempo
o mau poema não mata
(mais vale burro vivo
que sábio morto)

Pleasures and displeasures

Pleasures and displeasures
lead to the poem
as they might lead
to the precipice
the poem speaks of the precipice
where there will be weeping
and gnashing of teeth
and there won’t be Kleenex
or Dr. Abílio Loff
my dear dentist
the poem speaks of the precipice
averted in the nick of time
a bad poem kills no one
(a living donkey is worth more
than a dead wise man)
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