<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486631" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Carlos Drummond de Andrade: A tribute</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What now, José? <br> The party’s over, <br> the lights are off, <br> the crowd’s gone, <br> the night’s gone cold, <br> what now, José? <br> what now, you? <br> you without a name, <br> who mocks the others, <br> you who write poetry<br> who love, protest? <br> what now, José? <br> You have no wife, <br> you have no speech<br> you have no affection, <br> you can’t drink, <br> you can’t smoke, <br> you can’t even spit, <br> the night’s gone cold, <br> the day didn’t come, <br> the tram didn’t come, <br> laughter didn’t come<br> utopia didn’t come<br> and everything ended<br> and everything fled<br> and everything rotted<br> what now, José? <br> what now, José? <br> Your sweet words, <br> your instance of fever, <br> your feasting and fasting, <br> your library, <br> your gold mine, <br> your glass suit, <br> your incoherence, <br> your hate—what now? <br> Key in hand<br> you want to open the door, <br> but no door exists; <br> you want to die in the sea, <br> but the sea has dried; <br> you want to go to Minas<br> but Minas is no longer there.<br> José, what now? <br> If you screamed, <br> if you moaned, <br> if you played<br> a Viennese waltz, <br> if you slept, <br> if you tired, <br> if you died…<br> But you don’t die, <br> you’re stubborn, José! <br> Alone in the dark<br> like a wild animal, <br> without tradition, <br> without a naked wall<br> to lean against, <br> without a black horse<br> that flees galloping, <br> you march, José! <br> José, where to?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=486631" data-title="Carlos Drummond de Andrade: A tribute de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="What now, José? The party’s over, the lights are off, the crowd’s gone, the night’s gone cold, what now, José? what now, you? you without a name, who mocks the others, you who write poetry who love, protest? what now, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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