The multiple personality poet

seating at his usual table

O poeta é um fingidor Finge tão completamente Que chega a fingir que é dor A dor que deveras sente _____________________________ The poet is a faker Who's so good at his act He even fakes the pain Of pain he feels in fact.

Fernando Pessoa-himself, "Autopsychography" (Autopsicografia), tr. Richard Zenith.