Fernando Pessoa #02 - Original Sin

In this concise yet dramatic poem, Pessoa uses Álvaro de Campos, the naval engineer, to pose a series of questions whose answers are only available through the act of living: what's with my reality, that I only have a life? The figure of the Caesar at the end is bound to arouse humor, but what does it mean? What does it mean to be a Caesar? Have I been one without knowing it? Have I been many?

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