December 2010
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A Few Poems by Fernando Pessoa
Poets are fakers and their faking is so real that they even fake the pain,
the pain that they really feel.
I made of myself something beyond my knowledge,
And what I could make of myself I failed to do.
The domino costume that I wore was all wrong.
They immediately took me for someone I was not
and I didn’t deny it, and I was lost. When I tried
to take off the...
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I keep trying to talk to God
I really do
but nothing but the emptiness of the universe responds
and how is my mortal mind to know
that isn’t God
speaking to me in the tongue
of infinite silence
because nothing
is the only truth.