1

If one of these days

you see me crying

be sure

I celebrate

all

I didn't suffer.


2

Burnt

cigarette

dying

melody

certainty

all is good

quickly

dissolves.




In daily paper "Diário Popular", literary supplement "Juvenil", 1958 (I was 16 years old)

(1st edition, 2010; 2nd edition, 2017)