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to it as much as you can!
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I have asked
some of my Quora contacts if they could help me find some online radio stations
they liked. The answers were almost instantaneously. The one I liked most was
this one from Santa Monica, but I’ll post more options in the future.
I hope you listen
to it as much as you can!
Remember: if
you want to improve your English, you should listen to as many different
resources as possible. The more you listen, the more you improve it (your
listening skill).
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That might
make a good exercise. I have just found this website that is all about poems. I
do love poems – I myself have written some of the most stupid poems in the
whole universe!
Have you ever
struggled to find a word that rhymes? Well, I actually have.
Having read
this poem here, I kept questioning myself:
What rhymes with ORANGE?
by Jeff
Opperman
Now see the beautiful sunset ore the ocean blue
Fiery colors due abound of poems there are a few
I wish that I could write one, about that perfect hue
But nothing rhymes with Orange
Orchards stretch for miles, they never seem to stop
There nectar baring fruit is one that's hard to top
A fruit that justifies a sonnet, but might as well be
rock
But nothing rhymes with Orange
How do I describe a basketball?
Or the bricks within my garden wall
The autumn leaves before they fall
But nothing rhymes with Orange
So the hardest line you'll ever write
One to keep you up all night
So please tell if you might
What the hell rhymes with ORANGE?
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to solve this problem, how they
deal with beggars?
They take and throw them in the
tidal rivers.
Yes, idiots, paralytics, parasites
go bobbing int the ebbing sewage,
nights
out in the suburbs, where there
are no lights.
If they do this to anyone who begs,
drugged, drunk, or sober, with or
without legs,
what would they do to sick,
four-legged dogs?
In the cafés and on the sidewalk
corners
the joke is going round that all
the beggars
who can afford them now wear life
preservers.
In your condition you would not be
able
even to float, much less to
dog-paddle.
Now look, the practical, the
sensible
solution is to wear a fantasía.
Tonight you simply can't afford to
be a-
n eyesore... But no one will ever
see a
dog in máscara this time of year.
Ash Wednesday'll come but Carnival
is here.
What sambas can you dance? What
will you wear?
They say that Carnival's
degenerating
— radios, Americans, or something,
have ruined it completely. They're
just talking.
Carnival is always wonderful!
A depilated dog would not look
well.
Dress up! Dress up and dance at
Carnival!
1979
Elizabeth
Bishop
CADELA ROSADA
[Rio de Janeiro]
Sol forte, céu azul. O Rio sua.
Praia apinhada de barracas.
Nua,
passo apressado, você cruza a
rua.
Nunca vi um cão tão nu, tão sem
nada,
sem pêlo, pele tão
avermelhada...
Quem a vê até troca de calçada.
Têm medo da raiva. Mas isso não
é hidrofobia — é sarna. O olhar
é são
e esperto. E os seus filhotes,
onde estão?
(Tetas cheias de leite.) Em que
favela
você os escondeu, em que ruela,
pra viver sua vida de cadela?
Você não sabia? Deu no jornal:
pra resolver o problema social,
estão jogando os mendigos num
canal.
E não são só pedintes os
lançados
no rio da Guarda: idiotas,
aleijados,
vagabundos, alcoólatras,
drogados.
Se fazem isso com gente, os
estúpidos,
com pernetas ou bípedes, sem
escrúpulos,
o que não fariam com um
quadrúpede?
A piada mais contada hoje em
dia
é que os mendigos, em vez de
comida,
andam comprando bóias
salva-vidas.
Você, no estado em que está,
com esses peitos,
jogada no rio, afundava feito
parafuso. Falando sério, o
jeito
mesmo é vestir alguma fantasia.
Não dá pra você ficar por aí à
toa com essa cara. Você devia
pôr uma máscara qualquer. Que
tal?
Até a quarta-feira, é Carnaval!
Dance um samba! Abaixo o
baixo-astral!
Dizem que o Carnaval está
acabando,
culpa do rádio, dos
americanos...
Dizem a mesma bobagem todo ano.
O Carnaval está cada vez
melhor!
Agora, um cão pelado é mesmo um
horror...
Vamos, se fantasie!
A-lá-lá-ô...!
1979
Poema
extraído de: Elizabeth Bishop. O Iceberg Imaginário e Outros Poemas. Seleção, tradução e estudo crítico de Paulo
Henriques Britto. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 2001
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