Obrigado

"An existant can never justify the existence of another existant."
Nausea - Sartre

I am not sure what to do
with the thank you.

adding finality to your pursuit?
Or mere gesture?

Virgen eyes
riding above water
A saviour of nights in Bohemian sights
Immaculate obsession, not conception
Emergency contraception

Lighting up in lapa as I dance ballet
En face to hippies with brahma beer
And skol night caps
I beg for more and confer a kiss
Commemorating a fantasmic day – and a half
Um beijinho jeitinho, and a stolen laugh

We smile to the moon
For whom I seek council
I rise to regrets
Sex with holy eggs
Coffee made for me

We brunch with the sun
Suco de abacaxi com hortela
Walk to the water
And sunkiss the waves
Yemaya my mama Yemoja
I pay my respects

To the garlic, my tierra
Bom molho bolonhesa
Cut with such grace
pensive face

I took risks worthy of worry
Kissed more than Mary
And hope not in vain
Lest I complain

Forgetting
I too, say thank you…

cross border deals

In Rio
i drink coffee
from minas gerais
cheaper in my new york city deli

even with the dollar low
odd that costs are so high
this coastal global city
prefers euros

last month
Ford sold Jaguar
the former colony of Britain
to the Tata of India

globalization means
the have will have
the have not not

the goldern gringo days are over