TE19 Iberian Adventure

Rosa Oliveira

critical edition

writing on a cabbage patch on the coarse and capacious leaves heavy with rain writing on the colors of asphalt the ashy white of Nordic nights leaving for the huge planetary city

this singular city where we live condemned to swallow the old apoplectic modernism communal folder of people writing on a cabbage patch Herculano forgotten of romanticism digs deep between the nettles: instead of cabbages there are exquisite corpses right there in the neighborhood of emptiness with people exhausted of desire all is not lost sunday I’ll visit the farms in the person of others glad of my animosity stitching bakelite blue smoke it would be a parallel life but the moment has passed

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