Little Boxes

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Little Boxes de Pete Seeger

Little Boxes

Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes
Little boxes
Little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

And the people in the houses all go to the university
And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same
And there's doctors and there's lawyers
And business executives
And they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same
And they all play on the golf course and drink their martini dry
And they all have pretty children and the children go to school
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university
And they all get put in boxes, and they all come out the same
And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family
And they all get put in boxes, little boxes all the same

There's a green one, and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same

Tem de haver mais para além de pequenas caixas onde nos enfiamos todos os dias!

Nenúfares bailam e não têm raízes fixas...

Jardim Botânico de Coimbra

nobody told the flowers to come up ...

Ikkyu Sojun (1391-1481) era um mestre Zen do século XV. Os haiku que escreve são de uma beleza e simplicidade tocante.

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nobody told the flowers to come up nobody
will ask them to leave when spring's gone

Ikkyu Sojun, Crow with No Mouth, Copper Canyon Press, 1989, p.25

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Paul Cezanne, Flowers in a Vase, 1885

(colecção privada)

Detalhe, a flor caída na mesa.

Pete Seeger Where Have All The Flowers Gone