I look for you

I look for you through the smoke stimuli
that dims the alccohol taste in the throat

so your undefined outline
appears in smoke vapors
and alcohol
my will to forget

in vain

you persist in this atmosphere that isn't unbreathable enough
nor the vapors' thirst so pressing
to justify continuing smoke and drink night inside
for heath and sleep reasons
that

today

after all

kill you.

by Armando TABORDA, in "SINFONIA EM DOR MENOR", Editora Escola de Mar, 2007