Guerra em Curitibabylon

"Meu caro amigo eu não pretendo provocar
Nem atiçar suas saudades
Mas acontece que não posso me furtar
A lhe contar as novidades

Aqui na terra tão jogando futebol
Tem muito samba, muito choro e rock'n'roll
Uns dias chove, noutros dias bate sol

Mas o que eu quero é lhe dizer que a coisa aqui tá preta":

Com muita música do Chico senão também
ninguém segura esse rojão:

"Curitiba é três vezes mais violenta que São Paulo. E empata com o Rio"
Hoje na Gazeta do Povo

The boy and the soldiers

Sitting on the riverbank I watch what floats by. The stream brings a child sitting on a hospital bed. He must be 12, about my son’s age. A bandage hangs from his left shoulder where his arm should be. He cries conpulsively, in a foreign language, so I can only imagine what he is saying. His wailing reminds me of phantom pain, and the tearful words seem to mourn the sudden amputation of his childhood, possibly performed without anaesthetic. But then I realise that his cries may refer to a deeper pain. Maybe the blast that took his arm also took his mum. Maybe all his family, as many in Gaza these days. Before this story enters into a loop, I flick it away with my thumb, making the stream move forward. Another image stops in front of me. Three young men on a desert road dance to Staying Alive by Bee Gees. Their faces look very familiar to me. But it’s not easy to see their faces. They are partially covered with helmets and their bodies are surrounded by military gear. They don’t sp...

Love Thy Neighbour

Sigmund Freud's clothes hanging from Jacques Lacan's window; St Paul's rope hooked to Zigmunt Bauman's wall; Richard Sennett walking alongside Shylock, the Jew in the streets of Venice

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