F-Miranda

We are going to use this site ( []) where we can find some poems from Manuel Bandeira translated to English. It is quite useful due to the fact we want to show the Brazilian Literature to English speakers. We can find poems such as "Pneumothorax", which we are going to relate to Manuel's life.

" **PNEUMOTHORAX **

Fever, lung-coughing blood, gasping, and night-seats. A whole life that could have been, but was not. Cough, cough, cough.

He sent for the doctor: — Sat thirty-three. — Thirty-three… Thirty-three… Thirty-three… — Breathe.

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— You have a hole in the left lung and seepage into the right. — Well, doctor, isn´t possible to try a pneumothorax? — No. The only thing you can do is play an Argentine tango."