On [:] The Metaphysics of Chocolates | Alvaro de Campos, 1928

Sigmar Polke

“Eat your chocolates, little girl,
Eat your chocolates!
Believe me, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates,
And all religions put together teach no more than the candy shop.
Eat, dirty little girl, eat!
If only I could eat chocolates with the same truth as you!
But I think and, removing the silver paper that’s tinfoil,
I throw it on the ground, as I’ve thrown out life.”

The Tobacco Shop, 1928, excerpt
Fernando Pessoa, Poems of Alvaro de Campos: 1928-1935
tr. Richard Zenith