| In my city there are poets, poets
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| That arrive without drums or trumpets
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| Trumpets and always appear when
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| Less expected, saved, saved
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| Between books and shoes, in dusty chests
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| They come out of hidden places, in the air, in the air
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| Where they live with their peers, their peers
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| Your peers and live with ghosts
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| Multicolors of colors, of colors
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| That paint your dark circles
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| And they ask you not to cry
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| Your illusions are shared, broken
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| Departures between dead and wounded, wounds
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| Wounds but resist with words
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| Confused, Fused, Fused
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| At your sad slow step
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| Through the streets and avenues
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| They don't want glories or medals, medals
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| Medals, satisfied
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| With crumbs, crumbs, crumbs
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| From songs and plays with their
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| Scattered, Scattered Verses
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| Obsessed with the search for submerged treasures
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| They make four hundred thousand projects
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| Projects, projects, that are never
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| Reached, tired, tired none of that
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| Matter as they write, write
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| They write what they know they don't know
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| And what they say they shouldn't
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| Poets, poets, poets walk the streets
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| As if they were comets, comets, comets
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| In a strange sky of idiotic stars
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| And other and other
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| Whose shine without noise
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| Wear your crooked tails
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| In my city there are pens, pens, pens
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| Fading away in thousands, thousands, thousands
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| From words going backwards confused, confused
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| Confused, on thin napkins
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| Made unfinished flies
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| They walk the streets writing and seeing and seeing
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| That they see are telling us, saying
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| And being they real poets
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| While they spy and crave and crave
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| They don't get tired of talking
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| What they swear they didn't see
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| These poets, poets, poets look to the sky
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| As if they were spectacles, spectacles, lunatics
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| Released to space and the whole world
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| Whole, whole, they were looking to
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| Then return to Rio de Janeiro |