Fala do Mestre Carpina

- Severino, migrant,
Let me now tell you:
I don't really know the answer
To the question you asked,
If it's not worth jumping
Off the bridge and life
I don't even know that answer,
If you really want me to tell you
It's hard to defend,
Just with words, life,
Even more when it is
This one you see, Severina
But if I couldn't answer
The question you asked,
She, life, answered it
With her living presence.

And there is no better answer
Than the spectacle of life:
To see it unravel its thread,
Which is also called life,
To see the factory that it itself,
Stubbornly, manufactures,
To see it sprout as it did recently
In new exploded life
Even when it's so small
The explosion, like the one that happened
Like the one just now, frail
Even when it's the explosion
Of a Severina life.