MURMÚRIOS DE LISBOA XLI

Os murmúrios de Lisboa regressaram. Com mais histórias e mais anjos surpreendentes, espero ... :)

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The Paul Auster Book - Chapter II
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Parque das Nações - Rio Tejo

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I saw you again, Paul Auster Book. You were coming into the bookstore, probably from your coffee break. I was holding a book from the same poet and was about to pay for it. And then I just stood there, in the middle of the bookstore, staring at you for exactly one second. A second that lasted forever, and which I imediately tryed to cover up, by pretending I didn't even recognize you.

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I just stood there, holding a poet's book in my hand and pretending to look somewhere else. And I can't be sure but I think your whole body shuddered when you saw me. Because you didn't expect to see me and because you certainely recognized me. But I can't be sure because I don't know if I was the one who shuddered and because I shuddered it looked like you had shuddered and ... I'm not making any scence anymore, am I?

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I payed for the book. You went inside, somewhere. I don't know where because I had my back to you. I don't know anything about you. I don't know your name. I don't know what books you like to read. What's your favourite dish. Do you ride or take the subway home? What music do you listen to? What's your favourite movie? Do you like blue, like most people, or do you prefer another colour? Do you believe in stupid things such as the zodiac and love at first sight? I don't...

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Do you even like Paul Auster?

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"Narrative

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Because what happens will never happen,

and because what has happened

endlessly happens again,

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we are as we are, everything

has changed in us, if we speak

of the world

it is only to leave the world

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unsaid. Early winter: the yellow apples still

unfallen

in a naked tree, the tracks

of invisible deer

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in the first snow, and then the snow

that does not stop. We repent

of nothing. As if we could stand

in this light. As if we could stand in the silence

of this single moment

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of light."

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Paul Auster (Selected Poems)