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Maria Alexandre Dáskalos
My love is sad
And fills me with care.

Where is the bobbin lace pillow?
Have you tried the dendêns with sugar?

Don’t bring the waltz down to a cheese-burger
In an unknown pub!

He told me – don’t tire your eyes looking at the bobbins.

My love is sad and fills me with care.

from Do Tempo suspenso [Of suspended time]
b. 1957 Angola
© Instituto Camões, 2007