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SURVEYING

SURVEYING
It's all about the territory.
Living is mostly a matter of drawing boundaries,
evaluate where my space begins and ends,
my mark on the collective consciousness,
who is entitled to use the land
that a piece of letterhead paper
guarantees to be my possession,
although I've never worked the land
nor know the name of any of its living beings that throb
in its uterus.

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AGRIMENSURA

Tudo se resume ao território.
Viver é principalmente uma questão de gizar fronteiras,
avaliar onde começa e termina o meu espaço,
a minha marca na consciência colectiva,
quem tem direito a usufruiir do terreno
que um pedaço de papel timbrado
garante ser minha posse,
conquanto nunca tenha trabalhado a terra
nem saiba o nome de nenhum dos seres vivos que palpitam
no seu útero.

by André Pinto TEIXEIRA (b.1993), in "HISTORIOGRAFIA DA ANALEPSE, Emporium Editora, 2021

(English translated by Armando TABORDA, 2022)

(photograph taken from Internet - published under the fair use doctrine for noncommercial cultural purposes)

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 Armando Taborda
Armando Taborda club
Thanks for fave, Paolo Tanino, Stephan Fey, sea-herdorf, Jean-luc Drouin, Annemarie, J.Garcia, and Ulrich John!
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.
 cammino
cammino club
Alles, was wir im Leben besitzen, ist uns nur geliehen ...
2 years ago.
Armando Taborda club has replied to cammino club
...you're right, cammino...we get the things usufruct for our lifetime...nothing else...
2 years ago. Edited 2 years ago.

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