with its perverted methods
approach the boys without
being a target for missiles.
Life-loving doctors
anticipate death
and make the anaemic strong
without literary hyperboles.
Without paediatric hyperboles
life-loving doctors
develop the healthy sand
of the future youth at IMIP.
From sand castles emerge
(beached strongly in Recife)
capable of protecting people
before the sick condition.
To fortify a baby of sand
means not to allow him to crack
like glass against the wind
nor to rust like iron over time.
The hospital produces boys
of sand: machines immune
to infections of glass
and melancholy rust.
