Adiamento _ Álvaro de Campos

Postponement

 

After tomorrow, yes, only after tomorrow . . .

I'll take tomorrow to think about after tomorrow,

And that way it shall be possible; but today no . . .

No, today nothing; today I cannot.

The confused persistence of my objective subjectivity,

The sleep of my real life, intercalary,

The anticipated and infinite exhaustion,

An exhaustion of worlds to take an electric . . .

This species of soul . . .

Only after tomorrow . . .

Today I want to prepare myself,

I want to prepare myself to think tomorrow about the following day . . .

That is the one that is decisive.

I already have the plan traced out; but no, today I don't trace out plans . . .

Tomorrow is the day of plans.

Tomorrow I'll sit myself down at the work desk to conquer the world;

But I'll only conquer the world after tomorrow . . .

I have the urge to cry,

I have the urge to cry all of a sudden, from within . . .

No, they don't want to know anything else, it's secret, I don't tell.

Only after tomorrow . . .

When I was a child the Sunday circus filled me with joy all the week.

Today only the Sunday circus of all the week of my childhood fills me with joy . . .

After tomorrow I'll be somebody else,

My life shall be victorious,

All my real qualities of intelligent, reader, and pragmatist

Will be summoned for a notice . . .

But for a notice of tomorrow . . .

Today I want to sleep, I'll rewrite tomorrow . . .

For today what is the spectacle that'll repeat my childhood?

Just so that I can buy the tickets tomorrow,

Cause after tomorrow is when the spectacle is good . . .

Before, no . . .

After tomorrow I'll have the public pose that tomorrow I'll study.

After tomorrow I'll finally be what today I cannot be.

Only after tomorrow . . .

I'm drowsy like the coldness of a stray dog.

I'm very drowsy.

Tomorrow I'll tell you the words, or after tomorrow . . .

Yes, perhaps only after tomorrow . . .

 

The future . . .

Yes, the future . . .

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