ADVICES

By Pedro Du Bois (Balneário Camboriú, SC)

(Marina Du Bois, English version)

Told to the son: insist

on your propositions and do

wathever you think is the best

the son resisted

did

and the best was not enough

for the father’s predicted

nothing

unquiet

in false magnitude

told the son: I insisted and I did

and redid the redone done

from all the invested nothing

brought the facts’ no resolution

and the doom presented in a shabby

path ragged from affection

brought my back

the father heard and did not insist

on the son’s return the little

was enough: said nothing.