THE BLUE BOY
Cecília Meireles
The boy wants a donkey
to stroll.
A meek donkey,
don’t run or jump,
but who knows how to talk.
The boy wants a donkey
that knows how to say
the name of the rivers,
the mountains, the flowers,
- of everything that appears.
The boy wants a donkey
who knows how to make up beautiful stories
with people and animals
and with boats in the sea.
And the two will go out into the world
which is like a garden
just wider
and maybe longer
and that has no end.
(Anyone who knows about such a donkey,
can write
to Ruas das Casas,
Door Number,
to the Blue Boy who can’t read.)
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