I read through what is open in funding from European Commission and related services: Over 3000 entries in the TED tender database + plus everything else that is not there. Got a few minutes to get a few more points on the article on ICT and Health in China, as well as the article about the Brazilian electronic voting system. It is interesting that the Prudencio design of electronic voting, which originated in South Brazil, has become the dominant technology design in electronic voting at the global level.
I will probably not have time to look at the blog before next Monday. Thus I enter here the poems for four days. One question already emerged in my e-mail box. What is the Station Cafe? Well, it is a place that inspired most of the poems in the collection that I am presenting here. It is located in the city of Umea, in North Sweden. You can find more about the Kafe Station here: http://www.kafestation.com/5.html
Life and Death at the Station Cafe has three books: Death (19 poems), Conflict (15 poems) and Life (11 poems). The poems are numbered: First the book number, number one is death, and the poem number. So there is an order. Start with I.1, followed by I.2 etc. So you have to look at the numbers to follow the story's order...
Life and Death at the Station Cafe (death, conflict and life)
Book I: Death
Poem 3: Needles
Humanity Lost
Suffering remains
Attractive smile hides
Destroyed rotten teeth
Nice hands disguise
Claw thorned arms
Sculptured body deifies
By hell abused tail
Behind the beauty
Screaming eyes
Terrorised by the events
That broke her soul
Stole her heart
Destroyed her mind.
© Regis Cabral, 11 March 2005
Life and Death at the Station Cafe (death, conflict and life)
Book I: Death
Poem 4: Ticket
Aerial plane
Insane feeling
Illicite gain
Ticket unused
Body abused
In a travelling with no focused end
Flying thought
Crazy killing
Begotten pain
Ticket unused
Mind confused
By a journey without a start and end.
Gliding soul
Unnatural dealing
Bullet in vain
Ticket unused
Heart accused
Of not living from beginning to end
© Regis Cabral, 11 March 2005
Life and Death at the Station Cafe (death, conflict and life)
Book I: Death
Poem 5: Teenager's cry
All the stars
All the matters
All the signs
All the looks
Just scather
When she cries
Nothing shines
Nothing dies
Nothing emerges
Nothing moves
Drowning ether
When she cries
The end of light
The end of death
The end of life
The end of worlds
Join for ever
When she cries.
© Regis Cabral, 11 March 2005
Life and Death at the Station Cafe (death, conflict and life)
Book I: Death
Poem 6: Higher Education
Distorted
Crooked lines
Straighten up
In your twisted mind
Spins and whirlpools
Fast life into motions
All stationary
In your crazy emotions
So this is you
An invisible self imposition
Incapable of discerning
In your lack of distinction
Driven away
By your choice of insanity
Understanding disappearing
In your faked vanity
As you look at the mirror
Your higher education reveals nothing left
Just cockroaches
In your empty head
© Regis Cabral, 11 March 2005
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