Austra - Lose It

Um poema de Nunes da Rocha

SUECA

Havia quem falasse
Sobre o Grande Retrocesso que todos os dias
Nos liberta do futuro;

E quem sobre abjecção, vómito
E falta de ar, tivesse opinião;

Também um grego,
Cujo nome não recordo, dizia:
É o vinho que fala por mim;

E quem garantisse
Ser o Treze marido de Teresa.

Eram quatro, heterónimos todos,
À mesa da sueca que,
Como é sabido, é um jogo «calado».

Cova Funda, &etc., 2011.

Already Gone - Mary Milne

Um poema de Rui Cóias

São os olhos que aproximam os lugares do coração.
Agora que regressamos é nisto que penso
enquanto fazemos sinais uns para os outros com as luzes
dos carros, na rápida estrada, ao anoitecer.
Olha-se devagar para a vida e sobretudo assim
damos conta dos silêncios,
dos nomes devolvidos ao tão de leve silêncio.
A casa vincada pela névoa, a
aldeia imobilizada ao passearmos em grupos,
o café que me conforma quando o recebo entre as mãos.
Como dizer que são estas as mais secretas regiões da alma
a que voltamos sempre
nos maiores frios de dezembro?
Se de repente dizem que estamos a uma eternidade
frágil dos dias inquietos,
cruzas uma palma da mão sobre a outra e olhas para as
unhas, rindo de quando em vez para mim, que fico tão feliz.
e no regresso, quando os sobressaltos se repetem
e anoitece nas estradas vazias e o mundo adormece,
há uma solidão que estremece as bermas e nos aflige debaixo da
língua, como uma chuva miudinha.
Como falar depois da tua inclinada casa a meu lado
e do recanto mais longínquo dos pinhais?
Como acreditar que o tempo não tratá aos olhos a maior
solidão
em que ficámos?

Rui Coias, A Função do Geógrafo, Vila Nova de Famalicão: Quasi, 2000. Retirado daqui.

I can hardly make you mine - Cults

Alexandre Sarrazola - um poema

TODOS OS CÃES


todos os cães mudos de luz à passagem do cortejo
o sorriso do homem do trombone de varas
pendurado no rebate dos sinos
cai uma chuva miudinha a amortalhar o som dos metais
a tenda das comédias ensopa debo-
tada de uma alegria de domingo
vêm as crianças pedir as janeiras à nossa porta
cantam na sua inocência de quem não
sabe da lama nos nossos pés
e afagam-nos com cantigas de cristal para
nos limpar da tristeza pressentida
enfim a tarde vai chegando muito cedo e olha-
mos as janelas iluminadas das casas
que são dos outros,
como quem passeia um cão na noite da consoada


Merry Christmas (A.M. Pires Cabral et al.), Averno, Lisboa, 2006.

Breath After Coma - The Escape

CONFIAVA QUE SENDO MITSUBISHI A MINHA PENA - Daniel Jonas

CONFIAVA QUE SENDO MITSUBISHI A MINHA PENA
haveria de saber escrever haikus como Bashô.
Assim não é,
de nipónica a minha pena
nada tem;
a minha pena é portuguesa. Canta o fadô
como ninguém.

Daniel Jonas - retirado daqui.

The Last Elvis (2012) - Armando Bo

LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum

Um poema de Miguel Cardoso

DIÁLOGOS COM SOPHIA II


Sabemos que a noite
desfia as horas do dia
teceu e a manhã
irrompe irreversível e quase
singular e nada
do que acontece é solitário tudo
é eco e ressoa

E o inumerável é outro nome
para o mundo para o aguçado
revolver dos restos que nos restam
e do que neles resta
do entorpecido músculo do possível

A branda cegueira do inominável é outro nome
para as rugas do tecido de poeira e luz e espanto
da janela que por vezes habitamos em jejum
na manhã que sacode a exactidão
dos nomes e desperta coisa a coisa as ramagens
nítidas as mãos mundanas do que é eterno
e inteiro por instantes

Dos arranhados ecos

do estilhaçar das coisas
já no início estilhaçadas

Uma e outra vez na sucessão dos dias
erguem-se os ombros subitamente

nos intervalos dos tambores
do tempo tão dividido
num gesto fora de tempo e fora de uso
danço tropeço gesticulando para a verdade

Como é estranho tudo
saber – enquanto espero
neste canto do café com um livro
um lápis a luz de soslaio
sobre este canto da mesa –

a pouco

e no pouco saber e
de coisa em coisa
cerrar o punho do tempo
todo o tempo
fiado e desfiado
em torno de um instante

Sabêmo-lo.

É preciso reinventar o início

Miguel Cardoso, Que se diga que vi como a faca corta, Mariposa Azual, 2010. Retirado daqui.

Amália Hoje - Foi Deus

Two Pieces

Antes

Tentava desviar-lhe o cabelo sempre que este lhe tapava os olhos. A mão quase chegava a tocar os primeiros fios dourados.

Só que ela voltava a cabeça para o lado, talvez por vergonha, e ele nunca conseguiu tocar-lhe.

Before

He tried pulling back her hair whenever it covered her eyes, his hand almost touching her golden locks.

     However, she kept turning her head, probably because she was ashamed, and he never managed to touch her.

Depois

Agora que se reencontravam era ela que estendia a mão na tentativa de lhe tocar no cabelo, só que ele distraído como sempre, virava a cabeça para o lado e nem reparava no seu gesto.

     No entanto, ambos sorriam timidamente. Juntavam as mãos e apertavam-nos com a força de quem não quer largar. Só não mexiam no cabelo um do outro.

After

Now at their reencounter it was she who tried to fondle his hair. But he, distracted as always, turned his head around and did not even notice her hand.

     However, they were both timidly smiling at each other. They join hands and squeeze them with the strength of those who do not want to let go. They just do not stroke each other’s hair.  

I'm not There - Todd Haynes, 2007

Viagem

No metropolitano ao fim do dia
viajam caras que se movem
dentro do futuro; procuro
entender o que as faz cegamente avançar
em direcção à morte natural
como se, adolescentes, a criasse
ainda o mundo para o uso dúbio
dum ser abstracto a que chamamos tempo.

Gastão Cruz, A Moeda do Tempo, Assírio & Alvim, 2006.

Kishi Bashi - It all began with a burst

The Rape Joke - Patricia Lockwood

The rape joke is that you were 19 years old.

The rape joke is that he was your boyfriend.

The rape joke it wore a goatee. A goatee.

Imagine the rape joke looking in the mirror, perfectly reflecting back itself, and grooming itself to look more like a rape joke. “Ahhhh,” it thinks. “Yes. A goatee.”

No offense.

The rape joke is that he was seven years older. The rape joke is that you had known him for years, since you were too young to be interesting to him. You liked that use of the word interesting, as if you were a piece of knowledge that someone could be desperate to acquire, to assimilate, and to spit back out in different form through his goateed mouth.

Then suddenly you were older, but not very old at all.

The rape joke is that you had been drinking wine coolers. Wine coolers! Who drinks wine coolers? People who get raped, according to the rape joke.

The rape joke is he was a bouncer, and kept people out for a living.

Not you!

The rape joke is that he carried a knife, and would show it to you, and would turn it over and over in his hands as if it were a book.

He wasn’t threatening you, you understood. He just really liked his knife.

The rape joke is he once almost murdered a dude by throwing him through a plate-glass window. The next day he told you and he was trembling, which you took as evidence of his sensitivity.

How can a piece of knowledge be stupid? But of course you were so stupid.

The rape joke is that sometimes he would tell you you were going on a date and then take you over to his best friend Peewee’s house and make you watch wrestling while they all got high.

The rape joke is that his best friend was named Peewee.

OK, the rape joke is that he worshiped The Rock.

Like the dude was completely in love with The Rock. He thought it was so great what he could do with his eyebrow.

The rape joke is he called wrestling “a soap opera for men.” Men love drama too, he assured you.

The rape joke is that his bookshelf was just a row of paperbacks about serial killers. You mistook this for an interest in history, and laboring under this misapprehension you once gave him a copy of Günter Grass’s My Century, which he never even tried to read.

It gets funnier.

The rape joke is that he kept a diary. I wonder if he wrote about the rape in it.

The rape joke is that you read it once, and he talked about another girl. He called her Miss Geography, and said “he didn’t have those urges when he looked at her anymore,” not since he met you. Close call, Miss Geography!

The rape joke is that he was your father’s high-school student—your father taught World Religion. You helped him clean out his classroom at the end of the year, and he let you take home the most beat-up textbooks.

The rape joke is that he knew you when you were 12 years old. He once helped your family move two states over, and you drove from Cincinnati to St. Louis with him, all by yourselves, and he was kind to you, and you talked the whole way. He had chaw in his mouth the entire time, and you told him he was disgusting and he laughed, and spat the juice through his goatee into a Mountain Dew bottle.

The rape joke is that come on, you should have seen it coming. This rape joke is practically writing itself.

The rape joke is that you were facedown. The rape joke is you were wearing a pretty green necklace that your sister had made for you. Later you cut that necklace up. The mattress felt a specific way, and your mouth felt a specific way open against it, as if you were speaking, but you know you were not. As if your mouth were open ten years into the future, reciting a poem called Rape Joke.

The rape joke is that time is different, becomes more horrible and more habitable, and accommodates your need to go deeper into it.

Just like the body, which more than a concrete form is a capacity.

You know the body of time is elastic, can take almost anything you give it, and heals quickly.

The rape joke is that of course there was blood, which in human beings is so close to the surface.

The rape joke is you went home like nothing happened, and laughed about it the next day and the day after that, and when you told people you laughed, and that was the rape joke.

It was a year before you told your parents, because he was like a son to them. The rape joke is that when you told your father, he made the sign of the cross over you and said, “I absolve you of your sins, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit,” which even in its total wrongheadedness, was so completely sweet.

The rape joke is that you were crazy for the next five years, and had to move cities, and had to move states, and whole days went down into the sinkhole of thinking about why it happened. Like you went to look at your backyard and suddenly it wasn’t there, and you were looking down into the center of the earth, which played the same red event perpetually.

The rape joke is that after a while you weren’t crazy anymore, but close call, Miss Geography.

The rape joke is that for the next five years all you did was write, and never about yourself, about anything else, about apples on the tree, about islands, dead poets and the worms that aerated them, and there was no warm body in what you wrote, it was elsewhere.

The rape joke is that this is finally artless. The rape joke is that you do not write artlessly.

The rape joke is if you write a poem called Rape Joke, you’re asking for it to become the only thing people remember about you.

The rape joke is that you asked why he did it. The rape joke is he said he didn’t know, like what else would a rape joke say? The rape joke said YOU were the one who was drunk, and the rape joke said you remembered it wrong, which made you laugh out loud for one long split-open second. The wine coolers weren’t Bartles & Jaymes, but it would be funnier for the rape joke if they were. It was some pussy flavor, like Passionate Mango or Destroyed Strawberry, which you drank down without question and trustingly in the heart of Cincinnati Ohio.

Can rape jokes be funny at all, is the question.

Can any part of the rape joke be funny. The part where it ends—haha, just kidding! Though you did dream of killing the rape joke for years, spilling all of its blood out, and telling it that way.

The rape joke cries out for the right to be told.

The rape joke is that this is just how it happened.

The rape joke is that the next day he gave you Pet Sounds. No really. Pet Sounds. He said he was sorry and then he gave you Pet Sounds. Come on, that’s a little bit funny.

Admit it.

Retirado daqui.