Armando Taborda's photos

every time I go downtown I come in for 5 minutes, and I stay absorbed by its mystical atmosphere after the 1959 big fire

I don't like of popularity applause and boos nor of crowds I like anonymity in cinema's dark rooms with air conditioning turned off so that it doesn't make my chronic bronchitis worse or in my room with books and shadows of books haunting me where I stumble in the middle of the night when I get up to piss in addition I like to walk my arthrosclerosis through the fresh air of the fields in Lisbon streets easy neuron prophylaxis as long as I don't get hit by cars buses taxis and TDVE driven by GPS because migrants that guide them don't speak Portuguese or know the city mainly I run away from kick scooters motorcycles and electric bikes of UBER couriers who circulate on the sidewalks duly authorized on banners torn for this purpose by the mayor luckily now that I've caught COVID for the third time I stay at home and safe /// 3ª COVID não gosto de popularidade aplausos e apupos nem de multidões gosto do anonimato nas salas escuras dos cinemas com ar condicionado desligado para que não piore a minha bronquite crónica ou no meu quarto com livros e sombras de livros assombrando-me onde tropeço a meio da noite quando me levanto para mijar para além disso gosto de passear a minha aterosclerose pelo ar puro dos campos nas ruas de Lisboa simples profilaxia dos neurónios enquanto não for atropelado por carros autocarros táxis e TVDE conduzidos por GPS que os migrantes que os guiam não falam Português nem conhecem a cidade pricipalmente fujo das trotinetas motorizadas e bicicletas eléctricas dos UBER que circulam nos passeios devidamente autorizados em faixas para o efeito rasgadas pelo presidente de câmara felizmente agora que apanhei a COVID pela terceira vez tenho ficado anonimamente em casa e em segurança by Armando TABORDA, 2024 by Armando TABORDA, 2024

I washed the treetops with tears of rain I dried the land with the sun hidden in the orchard I photographed the sky with lenses of silence /// Lavei as copas das árvores com lágrimas de chuva Sequei a terra com o sol escondido no pomar Fotografei o céu com lentes de silêncio by Maria da Nazaré ROCHA, in her Facebook page, 15.06.2024 - photograph and poem (English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2024)

SHADOW IS ALWAYS THE PLACE FOR THE LIGHT OF ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE by Armando TABORDA, 2024

MEDIS not ever reimburses health expenditures in accordance with insured people expectations, but welcome them in a marvelous and ultra/modern back office financed by their annual premiums

I think that under the announced incoming heat wave, the specie has no chance to survive

in my birth's year this Portuguese citizen died at Tarrafal Prison, Cabo Verde