tavares firmino

The Aufhebung of the Sustaining Substance

Your ex-fiance depressed since the day,

now dating a childhood friend

of mine

and you sustain in the eternal suspension:

suspending others so many,

suspending your uninhabited house, now vacant,

suspending the mystery of your hunger

and the evidence of your drug,

suspending in me the memory of your desire

to get married

at the little chapel in front of the Port

of Jaraguá

where today I work in between tonnes of

chemicals

like you in me —

over time, everything suspends to evaporate near the smoke clouds and

heaven lies above to make me mistake height with ceasing —,

sustaining substance,

you are a sustaining substance in me.