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In the unbeginning was the verb.
Only later the verb had hallucinations.
The verb hallucinating is excavated at the beginning, there and when
a child says, "I listen to the birds' colours."
The child does not know that the verb 'listen' has no
function

with colour, but with sound.
So if the child changes a verb's functioning, the latter

hallucinates.
And that is so.
For poetry, which gives poets a voice, which is itself a voice for
giving birth -
A verb has to have hallucinations.

Original poem: no title, by Manoel de Barros

In: 'O livro das ignorãças', 1993