Everyone Wants to Live in Flamengo

Everyone wants to live in Flamengo
to have a stake in something big
without actually saying it -
a place that whispers its wealth on the breeze
like Leblon and Ipanema
those bronzed and beautiful curvaceous places
out on the side of the rich and famous
celebrity-struck to the core.

Everyone wants to make love in Flamengo;
to fall into the rhythm of the slight one note
not unlike a samba.
       
Everyone wants to die in Flamengo…

but not just yet.