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Recipe for a Hero/Receita para Fazer um Heroi por Reinaldo Ferreira

  • Writer: @ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
    @ Cynthia Adina Kirkwood
  • Mar 15, 2022
  • 1 min read

Updated: May 13, 2023




Valentyna Konstantynovska, 79, in combat training for civilians in Mariupol, Ukraine

(Photo by Vadim Ghirda/The Associated Press)

 

Tome-se um homen,

Feito de nada, como nos,

E em tamanho natural.

Embeba-se-lhe a carne,

Lentamente,

Duma certeza aguda, irracional,

Intensa como o odio ou como a fome.

Depois, perto do fim,

Agite-se um pendão

E toque-se um clarim.


Serve-se morte.


--Reinaldo Ferreira (1922-1959)


Recipe for a Hero


Take yourself a man

Made of nothing, as we are.

And of full size.

Soak the meat,

Slowly,

In the cutting certainty of irrationality,

As intense as hate or as hunger.

Afterwards, near the end,

Wave a flag

And sound a bugle.


Serve him up dead.


--Reinaldo Ferreira (1922-1959)


 
 
 

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