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Lessness and More
| Cesar Nascimento
| Lessness and More is a fresh poetic experiment that will be certainly most rewarding to the reader. Its themes are varied, from weather reports to approaching death. Not even the difficulties that every writer faces when trying to pour ideas onto paper are spared, as a chapter duly named "writer's block" will show.
Excerpts:
THAT SUMMER AFTERNOON
That summer was not easy on us But one afternoon the clouds came And the shadows gave way to quiet light As we walked to the park half regretting Having cursed the heat We were tired of summer, and afraid of winter Lying by me, you read a book, occasionally Turning your head to see what I was doing But I was reading too And I would bend over to your side And kiss you lightly on the head It was a quiet summer afternoon, and We had all life can offer The rest being vanity and excess I flipped a page and turned to you To kiss you on the head It was the last of that hot summer But winter would be warm
A DOG IS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND
Should you peek At the fugitive Picture of death? How will you face Your death If it is not sudden? And will your dog Ever bark At your corpse Deceased? Or will it be at ease As if you threw it a bone That was once your own?
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