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An Essay on Sweetness.(Poem)

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From: Southerly
Date: 20060622
Author:Mateer, John

 
An Essay on Sweetness 
 
   There is the idea of the perfect colony; 
   for instance, Saint Augustine's City of God. 
 
   Then there is the Empire of Nostalgia, 
   inhabited by inebriated poets, 
 
   its laneways and tiny late-night bars 
   manifold and luminous as the cells of a brain. 
 
   In the case of Portugal, there is another 
   dominion, of pleasures unnoticed. 
 
   The only evidence of its persistence 
   those golden stars dimly aglow 
 
   on countless cafe tables, timidly 
   blinking in the cave of the Universe. 
 
   Yes, we have Bartolomeu Dias and Pedro Alvares ...

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