Long Carne Poems

Where do we come in
					in medias res  not knowing nor caring when
doesn’t everybody pine being number one we leave behind our lives in pages  pictures  or else make for images of what...

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8 Versos Livres

1 - Dois amores

Escrever é meu 
segundo amor:
e posso dizer: 
quando se ama algo,
de atividade até pessoas 
você encontra muito tempo. 

Eu escrevo por duas horas por dia, 
geralmente começando à meia-noite; 
às...

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Even before the arrival of the first snows, so brilliantly candid, 
we climbed mounts less dangerous than the Alps's;
and we proudly chalked it up to our experience.
Now the snowy cliffs with bouffant boulders,
have lost their...

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Smith’s Octopuses Party On Pontoons 
                   Rumor Has It My Dear

Rumor has it my dear something spectacular...

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Golda and Goofus.

or how a young Baer lost his luncheon and found that man need not live by bread alone.
               ...

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Realidade e o Sonho

Diz o poeta pessimista,
somos um sonho divino 
que não se condensou, 
por completo.

Digo eu otimista
existe, em nós, 
um espaço interior;
que dá o poder de sonhar
de planejar
comunicar e realizar. 

Digo eu otimista
a vida...

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You gave us that, Grand Warrior
You conquered my anger and my bitterness
You conquered my vengeance, Madiba
You showed the World the way, Madiba
And forged a great nation, the Rainbow Nation
I was there with the happy multitudes

Yet...

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It’s been a day, brother, it’s been a day.
I’m ridiculous for lack of content,
All my plot holes are on display.
Am I doing OK? Am I having a day?
I can’t get a call back. I sat...

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At times we seem together as one 
Yet divided, by a separate peace 
A fresh piece of carne at a leopards feast 
You love your mother, yet you hate your niece 
The difference of what...

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I Love You 

I love you as much as a digging dog loves finding its long buried T-bone.
I love you as much as I love carne asada tacos and beans on Saturday nights.
I love you...

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Take a vile trip, so inhibitions slip
Let glass tip for a sanguine sip
When selfish gain is like cocaine
The world's an insane, twisted plane

Our lives are lies spent for blue skies
We feel torment from each surprise
No...

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Moved out to the country, isolated and without a car, I don’t know what I would have done without my new friends Mrs. Juhas and Mrs. Gatien. They forced me to call them by their...

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Por favor dime que esta pasando
tus pensamientos no puedo desifrarlos
si realmente no crees poder algun dia llegar amarme
dimelo por favor y dejame largarme

no gastes ya mas mi tiempo te lo pido de corazon
tu sabes que...

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Al completar trece, decidi lo mejor seria no crecer. No sere el primero en morir 
como martir pues la pobreza tal vez me convenza que el aire ya no es gratis.

Mi casa no esta hecha...

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No es ningún secreto, siempre soy vocal con la forma en que me siento
No quiero estar viva, la depresión me va a matar
La familia dice que necesito ayuda, pero no creo que la consigan. Lo...

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Who am I, where am I from
I’m a girl who ancestors are from Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Panama
See me I don’t know the whole enchilada
My zodiac sign has to do with Aqua
I walk up to...

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Realidade e o Sonho

Diz o poeta pessimista,
somos um sonho divino 
que não se condensou, 
por completo.

Digo eu otimista
existe, em nós, 
um espaço interior;
que dá o poder de sonhar
de planejar de comunicar e realizar. 

Digo eu...

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Para Janeiro

2018 – Janeiro,
Desemprego 
Que mina as forças,
do operário
do artesão
e da professora 
não cabem no poema. 

O preço do feijão 
não cabe no poema. 

O preço 
do arroz 
não cabe no poema. 

Não cabem no...

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