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"Tactics and Strategy" by Mario Benedetti


for Zaira

My tactic is to look

learn how you love how you


my tactic is to talk and listen


build with words an indestructible bridge My tactic is
remain in your remember
do not know how nor with what pretext

but remain in you
my tactic is to be frank

and know that you're free and that there
sell fakes

that between us there is no curtain or depths

my strategy is instead


deeper and easier
my strategy is that one day
any
do not know how nor with what pretext

finally you need me.

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"We take to ship and we are islands of Juan Vicente Piqueras

take us to ship and are islands.

intricate, deserted
treasures that we can offer to those who do not arrive?

our coast is difficult. our guiding light rather than light

voice does not attract, scare and no
sailor lost in the night
touch the beaches where our
still hurt in the footsteps of that castaway
who knew of our desert.

night, every night promises
and denies us the way back, the tornaviaggio,
the love
save us from ourselves and that is the word forever.

in ourselves unnamed
trees give shade and grow tired of their own.

those who leave but do not suffer from thirst
reef, like ports,
sail in her sleep, another attempt to quench thirst
before, watching us, see us as
ships, happy.

are islands.