From “Tabacaria” by Álvaro de Campos (1928)

This parenthetical is from the middle of the long poem“Tabacaria” (“Tobacco Shop”) by the Pessoan heteronym Álvaro de Campos (dated January 15, 1928).

(Eat chocolates, little one;
Eat chocolates!
Look, there’s nothing more metaphysical in the world than chocolates.
Notice that all the religions don’t teach us more than the candy store does.
Eat, filthy child, eat!
I wish I could eat chocolates with the same truth that you eat them!
But I think and, when I take off the silver paper, which is made of tinfoil,
I lay it all on the ground, like I’ve laid down life.)