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Although Vinicius had established his public figure through poetry and popular song, he was one of the greatest prose writers of his generation. As a matter of fact, a generation where the good prose of that time was crystallized through a chronic genre extremely characterized by the style of Rio de Janeiro city.
With a large number of newspapers that circulated in the city and with a team of writers which would vary from Rubem Braga to Carlinhos de Oliveira, from Carlos Drummond de Andrade to Clarice Lispector, from Fernando Sabino to Nelson Rodrigues, Vinicius sit among them as a chronicler who transmitted to the prose, the same reasons and the same lightness of style that he presented to the public in his poems.
O ônibus Greyhound travessa o Novo México
Vinicius de Moraes
Poesia
O ÔNIBUS GREYHOUND ATRAVESSA O NOVO MÉXICO
Terra seca árvore seca
E a bomba de gasolina
Casa seca paiol seco
E a bomba de gasolina
Serpente seca na estrada
E a bomba de gasolina
Pássaro seco no fio
(E a bomba de gasolina)
Do telégrafo: S. O. S.
E a bomba de gasolina
A pele seca o olhar seco
(E a bomba de gasolina)
Do índio que não esquece
E a bomba de gasolina
E a bomba de gasolina
E a bomba de gasolina
E a bomba de gasolina...
