pronto,

parti-me a rir.

estado actual

daqui

Lady Lazarus

I have done it again.
One year in every ten
I manage it-----

A sort of walking miracle, my skin
Bright as a Nazi lampshade,
My right foot

A paperweight,
My featureless, fine
Jew linen.

Peel off the napkin
O my enemy.
Do I terrify?-------

The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.

Soon, soon the flesh
The grave cave ate will be
At home on me

And I a smiling woman.
I am only thirty.
And like the cat I have nine times to die.

This is Number Three.
What a trash
To annihilate each decade.

What a million filaments.
The Peanut-crunching crowd
Shoves in to see

Them unwrap me hand in foot ------
The big strip tease.
Gentleman , ladies

These are my hands
My knees.
I may be skin and bone,

Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman.
The first time it happened I was ten.
It was an accident.

The second time I meant
To last it out and not come back at all.
I rocked shut

As a seashell.
They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.

It's easy enough to do it in a cell.
It's easy enough to do it and stay put.
It's the theatrical

Comeback in broad day
To the same place, the same face, the same brute
Amused shout:

'A miracle!'
That knocks me out.
There is a charge

For the eyeing my scars, there is a charge
For the hearing of my heart---
It really goes.

And there is a charge, a very large charge
For a word or a touch
Or a bit of blood

Or a piece of my hair on my clothes.
So, so, Herr Doktor.
So, Herr Enemy.

I am your opus,
I am your valuable,
The pure gold baby

That melts to a shriek.
I turn and burn.
Do not think I underestimate your great concern.

Ash, ash---
You poke and stir.
Flesh, bone, there is nothing there----

A cake of soap,
A wedding ring,
A gold filling.

Herr God, Herr Lucifer
Beware
Beware.

Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.

Sylvia Plath

The Applicant

First, are you our sort of a person?
Do you wear
A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,
A brace or a hook,
Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,


Stitches to show something's missing? No, no? Then
How can we give you a thing?
Stop crying.
Open your hand.
Empty? Empty. Here is a hand

To fill it and willing
To bring teacups and roll away headaches
And do whatever you tell it.
Will you marry it?
It is guaranteed

To thumb shut your eyes at the end
And dissolve of sorrow.
We make new stock from the salt.
I notice you are stark naked.
How about this suit -

Black and stiff, but not a bad fit.
Will you marry it?
It is waterproof, shatterproof, proof
Against fire and bombs through the roof.
Believe me, they'll bury you in it.

Now your head, excuse me, is empty.
I have the ticket for that.
Come here, sweetie, out of the closet.
Well, what do you think of that?
Naked as paper to start

But in twenty-five years she'll be silver,
In fifty, gold.
A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk.

It works, there is nothing wrong with it.
You have a hole, it's a poultice.
You have an eye, it's an image.
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.

Sylvia Plath

LOL

daqui

gostaria de descrever a emoção mais simples
alegria ou tristeza
mas não como os outros fazem
procurando chegar a dardos de chuva ou sol

gostaria de descrever a luz
que está a nascer em mim
mas sei que não se parece
com nenhuma estrela
porque não é tão brilhante
nem tão pura
e é inconstante

gostaria de descrever a coragem
sem arrastar atrás de mim um leão poeirento
e também a ansiedade
sem agitar um copo cheio de água

dizendo de outra maneira
daria todas as metáforas
em troca de uma palavra
arrancada do meu peito como uma costela
por uma palavra
contida dentro dos limites
da minha pele

mas aparentemente isso não é possível

e só para dizer — eu amo
corro em círculos como um louco
apanhando mãos cheias de pássaros
e a minha ternura
que afinal de contas não é feita de água
pergunta à água por um rosto

e a ira
diferente do fogo
pede-lhe emprestada
uma língua loquaz

tudo tão emaranhado
tudo tão emaranhado
em mim
que o senhor de cabelo branco
desfez o emaranhado de uma vez por todas
e disse este é o sujeito
e este é o complemento

adormecemos
com uma mão debaixo da cabeça
e com a outra
num aterro de planetas

os nossos pés abandonam-nos
e tocam a terra
com as suas raízes minúsculas
que de manhã
arrancamos dolorosamente

Zbigniew Herbert