The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro

SCIENCE FICTION

O marciano encontropu-me na rua

e teve medo de minha impossibilidade humana

O marciano encontropu-me na rua

e teve medo de minha impossibilidade humana

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

The Martian met me in the street

and was frightened by the possibility of my being human

How can a being exist, he wondered, who invests

the business of existing with so huge a denial of existence?