Paramparça [English translation]

I don't have a watch, I can't tell the exact time.

But it was a little before some wine.

How come when time doesn't pass,

years and lives pass?

I'm like a lost luggage at an airport

or like an empty swimming pool in autumn.

Is it too embarassing to still ask for happiness?

I don't even have the strength to ask for it anyways.

Today is my birthday,

I'm both drunk and grieving.

On a bar stool,

I'm at the age my father died.

Today's my birthday,

words are growing larger in my mouth.

All the lives I've ever known...

are in pieces, in pieces.

I don't have the energy but I still grabbed the phone

for a last apology to all the women I've loved.

I called them, voice messages appeared, I hung up.

I'm of those who can't talk to answering machines.