02 декември 2012

My Own Carnation Revolution

The lights of the Lisboa bridge 25 de abril are
painting the water red and green

your eyes are not green

It's okay,
your stream of golden curls
distorted alpha-helices
should be described in research papers
as an anomaly of perfect beauty
should be in history books
a fallen authoritarian regime
a sharp increase in double-takes
sleepless economists try to model it
journalists cover the event
and i am there too
the only survivor in
the fireless war that is your smile
honored and barely speaking.

Your eyes are not green, but there is red
red flowers in the barrel of a rifle
and one burning inside you
not like a fire, but
the first moments of an explosion,
before you know if the construction will
tumble down or
hold still.

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