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"Garbage Safari" - Philly's 2014 #DigitalFringe

A menagerie of junk elephants by Christine Stoddard, featuring the first two stanzas from the poem, "The Elephant," by Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987, Brazilian).
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I create an elephant/of my scarce resources./Some pieces of wood/taken of old furniture/might keep him straight.
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And I fill him up with cotton,/silk and sweetness./The glue will fast/ his saggy ears.
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The trunk curls/and it is the happiest part/of his architecture.
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But there are also the tusks,/made of such a pure material/that I can not duplicate.
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Such a white this richness/exposed in the circus/without loss or corruption.
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And finally the eyes, where is held/the most fluid and permanent part of the elephant, disconnected of every fraud.
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Here, my poor elephant,/ready to leave/and search for friends/in a world already tired
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that no longer believes in animals/and doubts things.
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Here he is, puissant and/fragile mass, winnows himself/and moves slow/his sewed skin/where flowers of cloth
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and clouds are allusions/to a more poetic world/where love retakes the natural forms.
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//There goes my elephant/through a crowded street,/but they do not want to see him/even not to laugh
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at his tail, which might/leave him walking alone./He is all grace, although/his legs are not of much help
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and his big belly/threatens to fall off/at the slightest touch./He shows with elegance/his minimal life,
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and in town, /there is no soul willing /to take from that sensitive body
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his fugacious image,/the clumsy steps,/yet hungry and touching.
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