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Carlos Drummond de Andrade, In the middle of the road  

 

In the middle of the road there was a stone

there was stone in the middle of the road

there was a stone

in the middle of the road there was a stone.

 

I'll never forget that episode

in the life of my over-fatigued retinas.

I'll never forget that in the middle of the road

there was a stone.

there was a stone in the middle of the road

in the middle of the road there was a stone.

 

 

 

 

Martha Medeiros, The Road is This

 

The road is this:
There's stone, there's sun
There’s bandits, little boys
There's you in love
There's you alone
Just choose
Go or stay.
I went.

 

 

 

Dudo Machado, Wandering Theater

For three years they'd been doing the same play. The success was so great and the requests from small towns so many that they decided to tour. But their travels, against what they'd hoped, worked to accentuate the tiresome routine of those always identical representations. To divert themselves the actors went embellishing each time in more and more improvised stretches until, little by little, the story and the characters began to change. By the end, the piece had transformed itself. But the audience didn't seem to notice this total change. No one complained, the enthused public accepted this other drama represented, and of course the presence of the famous actors. And the actors felt reinvigorated. The secret of the metamorphosis acted like a pact to strengthen the knot between them.

One night some time on, without being able to understand or control what was happening on stage, the words or gestures executed, they started turning into others, unrecognizable. By the second act the whole cast was shocked and bewildered. At the end of the show the public applauded with enthusiasm as always, but in the dressing rooms the actors could hardly look at each other. Only later dining at the hotel restaurant did they realize with excitement that they had followed, dialogue for dialogue, scene by scene, the original piece, abandoned some time back. 


 

 

that again again