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IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING

IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING
I guess these trailers lined up in the lot off the highway will do.
I guess that crooked eucalyptus tree also.
I guess this highway will have to do and the cars and the people in them on their way.
The present is always coming up to us, surrounding us.
It's hard to imagine atoms, hard to imagine hydrogen & oxygen binding, it'll have to do.
This sky with its macular clouds also and the electric tower to the left, one line broken free.

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EM DEFESA DO NADA

Imagino o que farão estes reboques alinhados no parque fora da autoestrada.
Imagino também aqueles eucaliptos torcidos.
Imagino o que esta autoestrada estará a fazer e os carros e as pessoas dentro deles aos seus destinos.
O presente chega sempre até nós, cerca-nos.
É difícil imaginar os átomos, difícil imaginar a mistura do hidrogénio com o oxigénio, será assim.
Também este céu com suas maculadas nuvens e a torre eléctrica à esquerda, com uma linha partida solta.

by Peter GIZZI, in "IN DEFENSE OF NOTHING SELECTED POEMS 1987-2011" (Wesleyan 2014)

(Portuguese translated by Armando TABORDA, 2018)

(photo taken from Internet; edited by Armando TABORDA)

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 Armando Taborda
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Thanks for fave, xenophora!
5 years ago.
 Dinesh
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Like the image, particularly the caption!
5 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
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Thanks Dinesh!
5 years ago.
 Erika Akire
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...your title alone is perfect;)...
5 years ago.
 Armando Taborda
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...the title is not mine...it's from Peter...
5 years ago.

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