"I'd rather be a comma than a full stop" (Coldplay - Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall)

“Pep, The Cat-Murdering Dog” was a black Labrador Retriever admitted to Eastern State Penitentiary on August 12, 1924. Prison folklore tells us that Pennsylvania Governor Gifford Pinchot used his executive powers to sentence Pep to life without parole for killing his wife’s cherished cat. Prison records support this story: Pep’s inmate number (C-2559) is skipped in prison intake logs and inmate records.
   He served the rest of his days in the penitentiary. His ghost is said to now haunt Eastern State. Reports say that in the night you can hear his dog tags jingling up and down the halls, and sometimes him scratching accompanied by a mournful howl.

Já te disse isto?: por vezes o teu corpo sai da sombra.
Nunca me preparei para esses momentos, estou sempre
por um triz onde a beleza devora tudo.

Vasco Gato

E os rios cobrem as folhas onde se escrevem histórias, que sempre andaram à mercê dos ventos.

nutrir-me-te-nos das tuas raízes, sentir o cheiro do verde, e deixar-nos perder no silêncio dos dias

é aqui que em silêncio se bordam os calendários
dias entre dias e sobre dias e as memórias que escapam
e não mais se alcançam se não nos tornamos menores

Vasco Gato

Skardu, Paquistão - 167 kms de estrada

cada palavra é uma maquina de guardar memórias
e em tempo de palavras ásperas o meu corpo
recolhe silêncios como passado

ouve, com que músculos faço os sonhos?

 Maria Lolita Sousa

i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite new a thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones, and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz
of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh … And eyes big love-crumbs,

and possibly i like the thrill

of under me you so quite new

E.E. Cummings

23/07/2017