At Times I Have

At times I have happy ideas,

Ideas suddenly happy, in among ideas

And the words in which they naturally shake free…

After writing, I read…

What made me write that?

Where have I been to find that?

Where did that come to me from? It is better than

me…

Shall we have been, in the world, at the most, pen

and ink

With which somebody writes properly what we here

jot?…

written under the pen name of, Alvaro de Campos(18.12.1934)