Jorge Vaz Nande reads Citizen in the Poetry Slam Finale скачать в хорошем качестве

Jorge Vaz Nande reads Citizen in the Poetry Slam Finale

Berlin, October 3rd 2009, during the European Poetry Slam Days (http://www.poetryslam-days.eu). The sound is not great and there is a cut, so here is the original text. CITIZEN you don't give a shit if i'm josé manuel barroso president of the european commission or durão barroso former prime-minister if i changed my name when i changed my profession because the french can't say "durão" or if i was a maoist revolutionary in my youth so what i'm not longer that boy and if i found him now i would laugh at him you don't give a shit if i changed my name like a writer an artist or a stripper and if i changed my thought i'm not a liar nor did i sell my dreams i'm a professional politician i'm josé manuel barroso president of the european commission and you don't give a shit in one of my rallies someone quoted a portuguese poem and said "let us follow the wreckfish!" and everybody applauded but by the end of the poem nobody knew the wreckfish is said to be a "betrayed fish" now who said this not my mother i'm no hamlet who said this not my son i'm no cesar who said this my wife my wife called me a betrayed fish not a lion a tiger or a horse a betrayed fish in front of you and still i got elected why because you don't give a shit i promised i would lower the taxes and i raised them i said i'd do reforms i didn't but i opened the airs to the cia bringing unknown cargo to guantanamo bay nothing much a quiet life but one day there was a war to decide and they needed an island to decide because the sea is relaxing where do you wanna go not bermuda bermuda sounds like shorts venga señor josé maria aznar please do come sir tony blair get the party goin' george w. bush come to the beautiful azores it's hard to get there and i know that protesters yelling could be very disturbing while you decide a slaughter come and eat some wreckfish for lunch but let me show up in the photo op like a waiter in a restaurant serving food to the grown ups let me show that I know how to play give me a few minutes to make a speech you won't regret it i'll knock my heels and say all the times you want I've seen the weapons of mass destruction I've seen the weapons of mass destruction I've seen the weapons of mass destruction and you know fifteen months later the call came durão became josé manuel no more mister prime-minister and you know if i delivered portugal to the political version of a love doll a man with a lifelong erection well that's just a good place to put a flag on and you know that today i'm the president of the european commision and that's ok because you don't give a shit and when i look through the window the world gets dark and i think about the past the millions of dead stars in the sky the dark bodies under the ground and the endless stream of evil kicking in the bottom of the night i do my peepee and i go to bed because properly quietly surely you don't give a shit and everyone will forget.