Parabolia

Ai Cais

Haikus of labor injustices.

2019

 

Texts written in Brazilian Portuguese.

The translations were made automatically so that other cultures could at least come close to the lyrical universe.

Summer gave birth

Green canoe announces

Come to the light chickpea

Stiff hands

They work the land with sweat

Hoes break

Soap boxes

Forklift wobbles

Apprentice collapses

Of so much misery

Because hunger does not forgive

Boss went to the gallows

This washerwoman

Give the river a song

Snore of fasting

Says the driver

Sleepy when night

Better a coffee

Blurry eyes

Fatty numerals

Tendinitis attacks

What unites the pawns

Oh solidarity

Need to be you

Celebrate the district

Children dance forró

Harvest time

There are also wanderers

Sometimes jugglers

That invert the logics

The eyelids wake up

It's only four in the morning

Transportation is scarce

High class children

Flush rare jewels

They blame the maid

Since the fourth autumn

Of this planetary crisis

The soil is desert

What about the police

It's still work

When do you shoot and kill?

The winter soup

From worker to miserable

Then vice versa