Antonio Lobo Antunes

Antonio Lobo Antunes

Writes a chronicle, which he claims is about Nothing that, for us, ( Nothing ) encompasses a mountain of words
reflecting the need of the needs ofman
Antonio protested against the Portuguese wars in Africa
“ He was an officer in the army” sending innocent farm boys from the interior of Portugal who could hardly write and read, fighting for
a corrupt colonial power.
 so many of them died for 
a lost business opportunity for the powerful
For parents, a faded photograph of a soldier, a medal
for bravery, a letter written by an employee with
a Remington typewriter, hastily written as the writer had to send a hundred messages more before the end of the end of a long working day
Antonia, yes, to be a collegian, although
I am not  is
a practicing psychiatrist, or was a shrink, I refuse to 
spell the Psych again, is in his delusion why he
refuses to stop smoking 
Here we go again, me noticing things of no consequence
I have read one of his books. “Memoria de Elefante.”
in Portuguese, a struggle, and as a not an academic
I did not know the Luso language was so rich.
Lately, he, on my FB page, write about life and also about the thing he has written in his novels
One of these things is about obese diabetes people and 
I feel he does not understand how extremely difficult 
it is for a diabetic person to stay slim.
However, he is a wise person with few 
vices, except 
from his smoking, his humor, or his contagious 
laughter
and as a great man, he has many flaws
But I am not sure if his academic knowledge will 
not collide my ironic skepticism.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023


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