The Famous Footballer <br />There is a great sorrow over Portugal a dark cloud <br />of tears, the great footballer Eusebio has died. <br />All the great and mighty in the Portuguese society <br /> tell of their friendship with him, even the president <br />came out of his shell and declared three days wake. <br /> When the great Nobel prize winner of literature <br />Jose Saramago died his departure hardly registered in <br />the papers...ok. So he wrote novels, big deal. <br /> <br />Eusebio da Silva born in Mozambique son of a railway <br />worker, was a friendly man, just the type of black man <br />white people like to patronize. Sadly there is a political <br />angle in this out pouring of grief, Mozambique is rich <br />and Portuguese industry needs their minerals and oil. <br />Spilling of tears can be advantageous<br /><br />oskar hansen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-footballer/
