Think, in square rooms,
Looking at the floor,
Looking at the ceiling.
They confine themselves
To right-angled triangles.
If they tried rhomboids,
Cones, waving lines, ellipses -
As for exemple, the ellipse of the half-moon -
Rationalists would wear sombreros.
Wallace Stevens, Ficção Suprema: Poemas, Luísa Maria Campos (tradução e prefácio), Assírio & Alvim, 1991.
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