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sexta-feira, 9 de setembro de 2011

Fugir à solidão de skate / If I roller-skate fast my loneliness won't catch up



A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up to him,


the best reason I ever heard
for trying to be a champion.


What I wonder tonight
pedaling hard down King William Street
is if it translates to bicycles.


A victory! To leave your loneliness
panting behind you on some street corner
while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas,
pink petals that have never felt loneliness,
no matter how slowly they fell.  

                                                                 Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Rider”

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