They Say ...
Juan Gelman
1993
inasmuch as men and women / in their infinite goodness /
believe in God / is it possible that God /
in his infinite goodness / believes in men and women
believes in me / right now / when my heart is purple with sadness /
it always seemed to me that God would dance the tango as gods do /
(at the atlanta club of my beloved city) /
in the argentine…
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