@tibianchini
1 year ago
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1986
( @andreajguesse, his poem reminded me of this, which I did long ago... Thanks for the memory and the nostalgia, I hope you like it)
Today the sun shines brighter;
I look at the window and I remember a 1986 morning.
The blue sky of 86, the holiday Sunday,
The warm, quiet morning of 1986.
Looks like I'm gonna turn my TV on in the living room,
My 14-inch Telefunken,
To watch Formula 1
And watch Piquet win and Senna come in third.
Then I'm gonna climb upstairs,
Eat grandma's macaroni and watch Silvio Santos
- What? She loved Silvio... And who knows, at night,
Aunt Cida rents a VHS for us to watch, since she's the only one with a VCR.
And this morning in 1986,
I'm gonna sit at the table and dirty the blue towel.
By spilling Brahma guaraná by accident...
But Mom doesn't care, because I'm still a kid.
And Daddy's home today,
And you're gonna sit on the wicker couch with me and show me
All those books that stay high and I can't always catch
And tell me about Halley's Comet, who's coming by soon.
Go down to the bakery on the corner and buy some Yopa ice cream,
Because it's very hot here in 1986,
And throw ball in the front parking lot,
And play Atari till dawn.
And Sarney's gonna be on TV announcing another plan.
And then change the name of the coin again,
But all right, then I'm going to watch football,
With that wonderful 1986 selection.
And look at the window to see the movement,
Girls on the streets with handkerchiefs on their necks,
And colored clothes, and broad pants
1986 fashion flights.
But life is one-handed:
Senna's dead, Maw Maw's dead, Zico's out.
And the handkerchiefs in the streets, and the colorful clothes
They don't even remember a fashion that doesn't exist anymore.
Today the world is noisy, it's internet,
It's black blocks, not straightaway.
It's imported cars and Koreans
And not the '86 Fuscas and Brasilias and Escorts.
Today the photos exist only in pixels,
We only see on liquid crystal screens:
Where did that click go and stay in anguish,
Waiting to reveal and see if it's okay?
Where were the infinite colors of the photographs,
The cheesy colors of shirts?
Where were the magazines' booklets, the newspapers printed
The khaki walls and the red refrigerators?
They didn't. They did. In 1986.
They never left; we left,
To continue the life and evolution of things,
In this march always in front of a train called Time.