it's yours
you can dance
sing
howl
recite a poem
carry out a comedy
drama
tragicomedy
cry
laugh
or you can just keep sitting in the audience
to envy the other's performance
é teu
podes dançar
cantar
uivar
recitar um poema
encenar um drama
comédia
tragicomédia
chorar
rir
ou podes simplesmente continuar sentado na plateia
a invejar o espectáculo dos outros
by Armando TABORDA, 2015
(post 1st edition, 2015; 2nd edition, 2021; 3rd edition, 2024)
Armando Taborda club has replied to Steve Bucknell clubSteve Bucknell club has replied to Armando Taborda clubas I walk across the high-wire,
and turn into a dove as I fall from the sky,
watch me reappear from a black top-hat
under water
as i wriggle out of straight-jacket and chains
watch me levitate
back to the wire
watch me juggle the twenty volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica
as I balance Proust on my head
and begin to answer "The 39 Steps is an organisation of spies, collecting information
on behalf of the Foreign Office of..."
watch me crumple
listen to my dying breaths
whispering of Stealth designs
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