10 Feb. 2003

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6 Feb. 2003

Entao, toca o telefone. Minha casa esta cheia de gente. O roomeite respondeu, e disse que ligaria de volta. Perguntei quem era. Batata! O Mister, ele mesmo. Deu frios e arrepios. O roomeite ligou de volta, e bateu um monte de papo. Dai olhou pra mim e perguntou se eu queria falar com ele. (E ele, sera que queria falar comigo?). Antes de poder memso reagir e registrar, o roomeite disse que eu ja tinha passado batido. Desligou.

Senti tudo como se meus sentimentos estavam rodando na pia antes de descer pelo ralo. Bye bye, Mister.



1 Feb. 2003

Preciso de uma cadeira. Urgentemente. Passo horas na frente dessa tela, numa cadeira que e baixa demais, mole demais. Nao e possivel escrever e trabalhar numa cadeira ruim comme essa!

La fora, neva. Esta derretendo logo que encosta no chao. E bonito, memso asism. Mas nao entendo muito bem o escandalo que as pessoas fazem por causa da neve. Eu, pessoalmente, prefiro ficar num barco, na praia, no sol com muito calor!

 

31 Jan. 03

"Cry me a River"
Minha irma jura que viu. Achei meio estranho, mas ela viu. No metro, aquele que atravessa o rio. Em cima de um dos predios (ela nao sabe bem qual), tinha um letreiro neon, escrito "cry me a river". E isso, meu amor. Quero ver voce chorar um rio Sena so pra mim. Porque para voce, chorei um oceano pacifico inteiro.

 

30 Jan. 03

Cotidiano coitado. Coisa desgastante e sem graca. Mediocre.
Acordo com o rosto colado no travesseiro. Nao tenho forcas de levantar. Desanimo, desespero. Abro os olhos e penso em seu corpo. So o corpo, porque de resto, nao sobrou nada. Voce passou pela minha vida e levou tudo. Nao deixou nem uma esperanca ou um calorzinho dento de mim. So tenho a lembranca de teu corpo.

Pego o metro, vou trabalhar. As pessoas em volta nao tem graca. Nenhum interesse, nenhuma curiosidade. Nao vejo nada, so rostos vazios. Nao tenho vontades, nem desejos. So quero teu corpo, e mais nada.

Mas voce esta longe. Nao me quer, ja fez sua escolha. Foi embora para longe. O que sobrou foi so um vazio. Tento prencher com textos. Meus sentimentos e minhas dores. Minhas vontades de voce. Sai tudo nessas letrinhas......

 

29 Jan. 2003

My room mate has a new girl friend. My room mate is my best friend. He is intelligent, interesting, a little tortured, but one of the nicest people I know. With a girlfriend now.

Her name is Flavia. She is from an exotic country, and very pretty. Long legs, dark shiny hair, blue eyes. The problem is she is dumb. Really dumb. She has nothing to talk about to anybody, no opinions, and no ideas. She litters our house with Vogue magazines and pointy heels. Her dream in life is to work for Prada. Not as a designer, please note. She wants to work in the Prada offices. She is doing a Masters degree in Milan in order to get her closer to that goal. And she likes apples. When she is in town, there are apples, apple juice, apple pie, apple yogurt and apple ice-cream in the house. I hate apples.

So I am a little bitter, I can see that. But all of this is true.

There are other things contributing to my bitterness. Frustrations at work, frustrations with my family, frustrations about the country I live in and it's inhabitants. And a broken heart. A severely broke heart.

When you are nursing a broken heart, the last thing you want to see is your room mate spending his nights on the phone with a pea brained stick insect. If at least he was spending his night having wild sex with her, it would be understandable. But he is wasting all the time he could be using to take me out, and get my mind off things, and give me attention. So ok, well yes, I'm a little jealous. But it's only because I have a broken heart.

These things should be taken into consideration a lot more in society. You should get sick leave, and store discounts, and automatic friends when you are trodden on by a man. You should be allowed to stare into space instead of answering e-mails at the office. People should give you the free seat on the crowded bus. And hold the door open when you are laden with groceries. You should get a "heart broken" sign to hang up around your neck in cases like these. And room mates should not be allowed to find new ditsy girlfriends!

I am trying, though. I decided to start exercising, and get in shape. And keep my weight down. When the man in question broke my heart, I actually stopped eating. Yes, it was that pathetic. The good thing about broken hearts is that you lose weight. Now I am going to get in shape to keep the weight down. And drink less, smoke less, sleep more. Get life in shape. Get my head in shape. And my friends. The shithead left, and I will become a much better person as a consequence.

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La fora: Paris. O sonho de consumo de tanta gente. A cidade luz.

Ta bom, ta legal. Paris e uma maravilha, linda, linda. Mas agora e inverno. Esta sempre escuro, umido, e um frio do caralho. Sorry, mas nao tenho vontade nehuma de sair.

Meu quartinho esta otimo. Meu computador fica do ladinho do aquecimento, aquele bafinho de ar previamente respirado fica subindo, passando por baixo do meu cotovelo, subindo ate meu queixo. Sou uma nerde de primeira. Fico no escurinho, na frente da minha telinha azul. Escrevendo e curtindo minha dor.

O menino esteve aqui tambem. Ficou aqui no meu escurinho, na frente da minha telinha. Sinto o cheiro dele. Minha pele ainda sente seu toque. Mas ele foi embora. Voltou pra outra. A mulher "legitima". Tudo bem, eu ja sei. Nao deve se meter com meninos maravilhosos que ja tem outras mulheres. Mas o que eu posso fazer, se ele saiu da casa dela, largou tudo, e veio estudar do ladinho da minha casa? E se ele arranjou varias outras mulheres? Ela que nao soube guardar marido.

Mas eu tambem devia ter me ligado. Homen lindo desses, que trabalha com cinema. Que tem milhoes de amigos. Que aparece em casa com uma mulher diferente cada vez. Achei que comigo seria diferente. Claro! Achei que era melhor do que elas, do que a mulher dele. Mas fui como todas as outras. Foi maravilhoso enquanto durou. Deixou poemas rabiscados na minha parede, saudades rabiscadas no meu corpo, e muita dor.

 

 

27 Jan. 2003

Internet e realmente uma coisa esquisitissima! Estava procurando o blog de minha prima. Cai no da Clarah Averbuck. De la sigo os links. Todo dia descubro mais. Ja conheco a vida dela, as suas dores, e agora, muitos dos seus amigos. Um mundo todo, saindo de uma simples palavra na search da terra.com.br:"blog"


24 Jan. 200314:49

Deus. Nunca te vi, e voce nunca me fez nada. Mas dizem que voce existe, e que se a gente pedir, voce vem e faz milagres. Entao olha, eu estou precisando de um milagrinho. Pouca coisa. Nao precisa separar nehum oceano nem nada. So preciso que aquele menino la, sabe (claro que sabe, voce sabe tudo, nao e?). Entao, aquele la, queria ele pra mim. Faz com que ele volte. Faz com que seus filhos se tornem meus, e que a mae deles desapareca. E faz com que as outras mulheres tambem desaparecam, e que sobre so eu na vida dele. Faz com que ele me ame de verdade, e que tudo aquilo que ele me disse seja verdade. Faz com que ele esteja me esperando quando eu chegar em casa, deitado na minha cama, como naquele dia. Faz com que eu consiga ter confianca absoluta, e que a gente vive felizes juntinhos para sempre. Porque ele e o unico no mundo que e perfeito pra mim. Ta bom, ta bom, ele estracalhou meu coracao, e acabou com minha auto estima, etc, etc, etc. Mas eu quero ele. So ele. Entao ajuda ai, de um jeitinho, falo?

Brigadinha!


20 Jan.03

What do you do when you wake up in the morning, after a week end thinking about somebody who is surely not thinking about you back, and when you check your Monday morning e-mail, there is a message from them? That person misses me. They wrote me a poem about it. I want to talk to them so bad. But I won't. I will ignore the e-mail, file it away, and spend another 8 weeks trying to forget that person's existence.

In a perfect world, we would fall in love. And there would be no complications, no other people to love and to hurt. In a perfect world, we would live in the same country, in the same town. Hopefully in the same house. We would be able to take the metro together, holding hands. I wouldn't be considered an evil woman who breaks up other people's family. I wouldn't spend my Sunday singing alone in my apartment, trying to drown my sorrows.

In a perfect world, when I sent him messages, he would reply. And I could also reply when he sent them to me. In fact, we wouldn't be sending messages, because we would be living in the same house, where we could talk, instead of sending messages.


16 Jan. 03

Just before I turned 27, I had the worst day of my life. Since then I had another almost worst day of my life, but it's going to be hard to top that other one. I was in the beautiful city of Barcelona, with Jerome. We were sitting on a beautiful beach, watching the sun come closer to the horizon. It was quiet and peaceful and so nearly perfect.

My mobile phone rang. It was my aunt. She was calling from across the Atlantic ocean. She was completely calm. She needed my sister's phone number. My sister's good friend Aline's father was my father's business partner. She needed to reach this man. You see, my parents had had a car accident. So she needed to talk to him. Her calm was an instant indication that something was horribly wrong. She is not calm. Not ever, under any circumstance.

The girl's father, Philip, was needed, to drive to the coast and see what he could do to help them at the hospital. They had a head-on collision on the way home from the beach. There was nothing left of the car. She kept talking about the car. I asked if she has spoken to my parents. She said she had, to both. I asked her again. She hesitated. I knew she was lying. I started to cry, and yell, and tell her she was scaring me. I wanted a reaction. She continued perfectly calm.

I hung up the phone and breathed. I cried and cried. Jerome just sat next to me. He didn't ask, didn't say anything, didn't touch me. He did exactly what I needed him to do. I called my sister, and asked her to call home. She is supposed to be the artistic, dramatic, depressive one. She handled it perfectly well, while I couldn't even see the ocean in front of me anymore.

Throughout the next 24 hours, little by little, information came. There was a man who broke up with his girlfriend. He had a motorbike. He saw her talking to another man, and in a fit, tried to run over her with the bike. He tried to kill her. The people around them reacted. They went after him. In order to escape, he stole a car, and took off. The police were after him. He took the windy road up the coast. He lost control of his car, and it crossed the road to the oncoming traffic. To my oncoming parents. Head on.

My father managed to get out of the car, and walked around it to my mother's side, to try to get her out. He lost consciousness before he reached her. A man who stopped to help them caught him and prevented his head from hitting the concrete. They stretched him out on the road and waited for the ambulance. My mother sat in the car, immobilized by pain. She couldn't open her door. When the ambulance people arrived, they concentrated on the other driver, who had visible fractures. They cut him out of his car, and put him in an ambulance with my father.

They took my mother out of the car and put her in a second ambulance. She couldn't speak.

The next day my phone rang again. It was Philip, Aline's father. They had moved my parents to another hospital, in town. They each had a room, and they were under observation. My father had fractured his sternum, my mother was in incredible pain. He said my father wanted to talk to me. My father is a big man, strong, athletic, healthy. He is never sick. He was stuck in a hospital bed, about ten thousand kilometers away from me. When I heard his voice, I choked. I couldn't speak, I could only wail. When he heard me, he couldn't speak either. I think this alone was the hardest moment in my life. Philip took the phone. He explained that with a fractured sternum, you shouldn't cough, or laugh, or breathe deeply, because this would move it. With a fractured sternum you shouldn't cry.

My mother still wasn't speaking. She was in atrocious pain. She wanted to stay in the hospital, with drugs and pain-killers.

I went home the next day. It was still an ocean away. I still couldn't see them. They went home, they suffered with their pain, they tried to recuperate. I desperately wanted to know what had happened to this man. Was he dead? Was he in jail? In hospital? Crippled? I don't know what happened to him. I don't think anything did. I think the legal system will leave him hanging and he will remain free.

I don't believe in punishment. I don't think it solves problems. But I wish that I could talk to him. I want to tell him what his fury did to me and my family. I want him to know about the worst day of my life. I want him to know that he is responsible for it, that it was



Intro

Isso nao eh um diario, nao eh um blog. Nao eh poesia, nao eh arte. Nao tem formato nem intencao. Nao tem lingua, nao tem fim. Nem comeco, nem meio. E alias, tambem nao tem acento!

Se eu conseguisse, faria musica. Mas depois de anos de aulas de piano, violino, flauta, violao e batucada, nao sou capaz. Nao posso nem cantarolar sem desafinar. Senao eu seria a proxima Cassia Eller, o novo Lenine. Ja que nao sou capaz, vai ter que ser aqui mesmo que solto as coisinhas que estao dentro de mim. As coisinhas que ninguem quer saber. Que nao sao destinadas a ninguem.

Ai vai. Enjoy!


Porque comecei isso? De once veio? Olha, e a mesmissima historia de sempre. Um belo dia, cheguei em casa pensando em uma pessoa que nao me quer. Diz que me ama, mas nao lembra de mim. Entao veio aquela velha dor. Amor doi, certo? Todo mundo sabe disso. Mas a gente esquece. E de vez em quando aparece uma pessoa pra estracalhar teu coracao, just in case you had forgotten. Dai cheguei em casa, com fumo e vinho na cabeca. Tinha um monte de coisa dentro de mim. Tinha vontade de pintar, ou de fazer musica. Mas falta o talento. Entao escrevi um montao. Cartas pra ele, que ele nunca vai ler. E textos pra ninguem. Mas me sentia injuriada de ter um monte de letrinhas que nao serviam a nada. Entao porque nao colocar num site algum lugar? Minhas tripas espalhadas pela internet. Que ninguem vai ler.

Voila!