LET IT BE



Idiot

let it be!

Don't think

intellectually

on life

that runs away from you

sterile

misunderstood.



Laugh

like them

from culture.

Disdain from art

and poetry.

Fill you up

with the futile life

they live

and you will be happy.



(to read the original Portuguese version click on the figure, please)

In daily paper "Diário Popular", literary supplement "Juvenil", 1958 (I was 16 years old)

(article 1st edition, 2010; 2nd edition, 2016)