Angélica Freitas > Quotes

“alguém quer saber o que é metonímia
abre uma página da wikipédia
se depara com um trecho de borges
em que a prova representa o navio

a parte pelo todo se chama sinédoque

a parte pelo todo em minha vida
este pedaço de tapeçaria
é representativo? não é representativo?”
― Angélica Freitas, Um Útero é do Tamanho de um Punho

“djuna said better not bet on someone
who'll only wake up by your side at random”
― Angélica Freitas, Rilke shake

“gertrude stein has a big butt slide over gertrude
stein and when she slides it makes a great noise
as though someone dragged a wet cloth across
the huge glass window of a public building

gertrude stein from here to there it's you the washcloth
behind your ear is all yours from here to there it's me the rubber
duckies mine gertrude stein and thusly we're pleased

but gertrude stein is a charlatan thinks it's fine to let one
loose under the water eh gertrude stein? it's impossible
that anyone could so enjoy making bubbles

and because it's her tub she pulls the plug and steals
my towel

and runs out stark naked huge butt descending the
staircase onto the streets of st.-germain-des-prés”
― Angélica Freitas, Rilke shake

“i enter the idiot's bookstore.
i don't have any money
and i don't have a knack for crime either

lining up before my eyes
wonderful titles
moribund from sitting so long
on the shelves.

steal us, they say,
we can't stand it anymore
in the idiot's bookstore.

who'd believe
this version of the facts?
help me, maragatos
in this most stolen hour
of a destitute liberator
of books.

my heart pounds. pounds
more than the salgueiro drum line.
my whole body shakes
and my hands sweat buckets.

i reach the street, hands empty
and the books cry: sissy.”
― Angélica Freitas, Rilke shake

“o dia seguinte
na tua cama
de lençóis
zêlo com
circunflexo,
a dôr com
circunflexo,
porque é
antiga,
como o café pelé
todos a conhecem.”
― Angélica Freitas, Um Útero é do Tamanho de um Punho

“a woman goes to the movies
a woman goes to get ready
a woman is going to ovulate”
― Angélica Freitas, Um Útero é do Tamanho de um Punho

“make me a rilke shake
with love & ovaltine
when i have a sleepless night
and nothing lights up
i order a rilke shake
and eat a toasted blake
sunny side up
when i am sad
& lonely while
love doesn't blind me
i drink a rilke shake
and brush a toasted blake
against the epidermis of the butter”
― Angélica Freitas, Rilke shake