What's rendered me an impotent of life,
while others live a life with vibrant hum?
A curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife!

While other lives with fine success are rife,
my own's deplete, a curse has sure become
what's rendered me an impotent of life!

Through failure to provide I've lost a wife!
Though I believe, there are those doubts in some,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife

cannot exist, they say, I'm a midwife
to all my troubles, I am who has done
what's rendered me an impotent of life!

Or maybe I've insulted a spaewife,
who cast, to love and money make me dumb,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife.

I've searched from North Recife to Tenerife,
and failed to find a way to make undone
what's rendered me an impotent of life,
a curse that's hedged me by a wall of strife!

(C)2012, Christos Rigakos

Vida trágica;
Vida linda;
Dá alegria;
E também, ferida

pedaços de sujeira enfiados embaixo das unhas
sobre um vento quente passado metade de janeiro.

e os olhos ardidos observando com toda calma
a tela branca acinzentada e retangular.

narizes que coçam em momentos impróprios
e cães que aguardam pacientemente
mãos de pele em seus pelos sujos de poeira.

os pelos da coxa pintados de loiro falsificado
brilham na luz do abajur como purpurina no carnaval de Recife.

e aqueles fios de cabelo teimosos que caem sobre o ombro
tocando a derme queimada pelo sol
que
por consequência, os dedos impacientes não cansam
de procurar
para então removê-los.