ₙₒₜ gₒᵢₙg ₜₕₐₜ wₐy

Ah! don’t give me sympathetic intentions! don’t ask me for definitions! don’t tell me: “come this way”! my life is a whirlwind that broke loose, it’s a wave that rose. it’s one more atom that ignited… I don’t know which way I’ll go, I don’t know where I’m going to – I know I’m not going that way!

José Régio
Cântico Negro “Black Chant” by José Régio on Poemas de Deus e do Diabo “Poems from God and the Devil”. Interpreted by João Villaret (1955)

I consider this poem my modus operandi at this right moment. So many doubts. So many anxieties. The only thing that is clear for me is where I am heading and it is definitely not in that way. As ambiguous as it is, for now, there’s no need for objective definitions of what is happening.

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