I take the floor (24) - Tomo a palavra (24)

BANQUET

In the Fatherland's anniversary

the banquet

is served tepid

by ladies very well dressed

frigid

and plump

everybody clamp

under a Requiem's rhythm of plates

glasses

cutlery and candlesticks

played to commend the souls of the national poets

alive and dead.

VIOLA DELTA, Volume XLIII, Mic…

 (to read the original Portuguese version of these texts please click on the above image)

BELCH

Express everything in a blow

 inspire the mystery from the slow and inexorable air

till it get lost in the stomach

 afterwards expire it through an       oh!

stunned

smothered in the throat.

 In VIOLA DELTA, Volume XLIII, Mic Editors & Authors, 2006

(both texts illustrated by Fernando Grade)