Day is night
and night is day;
when to sleep
and when to eat
my body cannot say.
I sit on the roof,
small hours bloated
to fullness,
full like the bed full
of dust that I lay in,
hours, restless:
the dark Portugal night.
Day is night
and night is day;
when to sleep
and when to eat
my body cannot say.
I sit on the roof,
small hours bloated
to fullness,
full like the bed full
of dust that I lay in,
hours, restless:
the dark Portugal night.