Stories of Paraná - The Poet Seer

Stories of Paraná - The Poet Seer

The poet seer
Wilson Buoy

Manoel Ribas would command the destinies of our state for nearly fourteen years in a row.
From 1932 to 1945, either as Governor or as Interventor, mark with their attitudes unpredictable and irreverent, with his peculiar way of acting and thinking, with its sweeping and explosive temper, his sudden moments of thoughtlessness, the administrative and political history Paraná.
Its democratic nature, his attention turned to the humble, coming to send home to their less fortunate luck not only food and clothing, and medicine, treating everyone without distinction of color or social status, ready to reconcile publicly with their opponents before they fought, who owns a frankness that sometimes reached the brink of botched job, now ^ íegre, sometimes intractable, his conduct themselves confused and disoriented friends their opponents.
He hated cowardice, admired the strong and courageous.
How Interventor Federal and Head of the Social Democratic Party had hits and misses.
Palace lived in San Francisco, and sent desmandou.
Disliked ceremonies or apparatuses.
None of protocols.
For those who attended the sought at any time of CFIA or night and when traveling, always went to the driver's side.
After all, no one was indifferent.
Or admiration or antipathy.
But living here, living in St. Joseph of the Pines, a poet and a good one, gaucho Alegrete combative journalist, poet hurtful, incorrigible bohemian, Barros Kasai, always attack with his sonnets fine irony, the speaker's Daily Paraná, our Pontagrossense greater. The section was titled 'Devil's Violin "and the author was hiding under the pseudonym Jacob Pim-Pim.
Knew that Manuel Ribas rode seriously cranky and that sent to Hidromineral mining Araxá looking for improvements to their health.
Improvements which unfortunately does not happen because of the seriousness of the diagnosis.
And like a premonition, predicting the poet a tragic outcome for Machete Mane, as he was called the trustee, certain he would not return to never Paraná government, published the January 22, 1946 (notice that Ribas pass away at twelve hours and forty minutes of Monday 28) this satirical sonnet of flavor, it not escaping the Flowers, the celebrated Captain Fernando Flores, Chief of Police:
"I believe in everything in life, being a cat ocelot after a barbed wire be food, a beggar turn on the rich.
I believe that God is the only climb that cures whack with arnica, because, after all, in mundanária read, pork can be a leather calfskin ...
You see, dear reader, as I am a believer, I believe that is a horn comb, That the voice of conscience is an echo;
I believe, after all, even the flowers in a rainbow with a billion colors
just do not believe in the Maneco back! "

Wilson Float Curitibano, is president of the Brazilian Society of Medical Writers.


Source: Stories of the Paraná, Brasil.