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von Anna Carolina Nogueira

So What? (Brazil, April 28th 2020)

the president of the country said
so what?
I refuse to ignore
what I read
I lack
words
overflowing sensations

I lack expressions
for the sociopathic messiah
we have a president who kills
he doesn't care for 5.017
his tranquility doesn't feel

blood does
not spill on him

our blood is in the hands who voted 17

Brazil is dead

The breath of death

death surrounds our homes
you can feel the hot breath
through my ears
I can hear something
similar to heavy breathing
but only those who are alive
breathe
and the sound I hear is
death

at the end of the street
across the street
on the backstreet …
doing its soul collecting
leaving empty spaces

and notes with the phrase
here lies

Bonfire

I took our memories
and I built a huge fire
instead of just
watching it burn
I felt like dancing

and danced …!

I enjoyed the warmth of our love
love (?)

yeah!
love!
there was love
we will not deny that
no
it just didn’t stay
so I danced
I danced feeling the temperature
illuminated by the light of our affection

everything burned


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Anna Carolina Nogueira

is a Brazilian black woman, actress, poet and writer, born in Recife, state of Pernambuco. Like a large part of the Brazilian population, at the age of 15 she started to combine work and study. She graduated in Organizational Marketing from the State University Vale do Acaraú - UVA in 2009 but in 2016 she decided to change her career and started studying theater to become an actress. As a writer, she publishes her subjective and collective anxieties as a black woman on her blog since 2011, and in 2019 she created the page escrita comum – on instagram – exposing shorter and more direct verses about the entire universe that crosses her, that she sees and feels.

»Nobody is one thing. We are multiple experiences. If we allow ourselves to exchange knowledge, our strength will be enhanced.«

@annacnogs / @escritacomum



Anna Carolina Nogueira

is a Brazilian black woman, actress, poet and writer, born in Recife, state of Pernambuco. Like a large part of the Brazilian population, at the age of 15 she started to combine work and study. She graduated in Organizational Marketing from the State University Vale do Acaraú - UVA in 2009 but in 2016 she decided to change her career and started studying theater to become an actress. As a writer, she publishes her subjective and collective anxieties as a black woman on her blog since 2011, and in 2019 she created the page escrita comum – on instagram – exposing shorter and more direct verses about the entire universe that crosses her, that she sees and feels.

»Nobody is one thing. We are multiple experiences. If we allow ourselves to exchange knowledge, our strength will be enhanced.«

@annacnogs / @escritacomum