To have legs is so good
one can go on to the fields
and load one's back with potatoes and onions of others.
To have legs is so good
to walk by the side of one’s girlfriend
for a bag of popcorn,
for movie theatre darkness and then marriage
to make more legs.
To have legs is so good
and to run without need to talk.
To have legs is so good
even if you just use them to write
not even knowing.
To have legs is so good
to put a mouth between them.
To have legs is so good
to go out shopping
and bring food to the strength to walk.
To have legs is so unbearably good
that envy invented war
just to cut them off.
To have legs is so good.
(Unpublished)
Translated by Rui Parada