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| Carnaval Terminale Rio intoxicates itself into believing it may rage this way for all time night after night consuming itself in fleshy fireworks incandescent laceworks above the bared garter of Guanabara Bay In Rio ecstasy is compulsory as an army decree No regrets, no tomorrows if you please Samba horns blast out in flower petals in delirious music and cavalcades insatiable beaded bodies everywhere greedy to devour, to be ate up my soldier's liquor-slick lips draw near my laughing mouth suddenly breaks into an animal howl beyond all control I am lost and alone in Rio's tyranny lacking no earthly pleasure save the scent of your silence, hands bereft of everything |
This Forlorn Planet Who is there? Nazirah, you've come home
My insides tremble and desire outwards
Nazirah help me up, I am ready |
| people are bribing their way past roadblocks... health care officials have feared that if the virus were able to reach Kinshasa, it would use the city as a launching pad, spreading to the rest of the world via modern transport systems |