Cassiano - The poetry is born

Another murder
In the neighborhood of Garden of roses.
It was a teenager
Colleague of school
The reason, the truth
In some not known.
It was in cold blood,
Two pivetes and a rifle.
The blood falling
The crowd combined.
The next day many people followed
Some cried And others were serious
Some were friends
Other known.
Those who laughed,
Absolutely nothing views
They were not the family
Much less a friend.
Rebel without a Cause
Adolescents liars
They dying every day
Thousands of young people without life
Their mind is already empty

(December 1996)

Prologue

October 27, 2000

What is happening in the minds of young people on the outside?

The riots, the impossible dream, the discovery of the world by hard paths of words, and the destruction of day-to-day.

I am a son of a generation that believes me unable to take my own mistakes, subjugando my actions and my decisions. Sobrevivendo in a violent and to see a good part of the story I will walk. This story is dedicated to the many couples who have had their lives destroyed, giving inspiration to many verses that were born.

My friends became violent characters in stories that serve as an example. The story of my life is like that of many young people in the world, and they can not me proud.
I have adventures, novels, tragedies and a final like that of some young people.
But that, you, my dear reader, will only find when read by the end of the story "wonderful" Garden of Roses ...

Here, the verses born in our minds, giving life to situations of day-to-day.
Declare our anguish and injustice for which we are obliged to pass.

Some of these verses are transformed into rap, our root music, music that a new generation born listening, our poetry, our daily writing line after line.

Some say the thief music, others to empty minds. The rap music is our awareness of that warning about the cruelties that the friend is suffering, not us forget how difficult it is to our daily lives; It is our prayer, our request to the heavens for all that change one day ...

"It's so much inequality, but I have faith. Look, Lord, that people suffered ... "

Garden of Roses – Diary of a Brother (Mano)

Author's Note The history of Seven Knights of the Apocalypse is a key point in that novel. Boys with the same infancy in the street, but with a different family education. The events narrated define the destiny of each one, but the pact made in childhood means that nothing changes the relationship of friendship between them. A young man called on his daily reports Cassiano the major events of his life, recalling her childhood, adolescence and entered the world of adults. Cassiano was born and grew up on the periphery of the Rose Garden neighborhood, located in the Capão Redondo, known for high crime and juvenile delinquency. The Capão Redondo had its reputation highlighted by the newspapers and TV networks mainly in the 1990's, when many crimes and facts of adolescence, Cassiano are also reported. The book brings a language characteristic of large suburbs paulistanos, presenting many dialects translated in the glossary at the end of the book. Garden of Roses has a differential, which is the way it was written: use is a poetic language to describe tragic events, usually characterized by marginal literature, poetry and also different about the feelings of Cassiano. The book has moments of reflection on young people and people that make these young people. The search for explanations for the thoughts, attitudes and for themselves events makes the narrator-character Cassiano find their identity and a reason to continue living in search of great achievements, personal and professional. Diary of a Brother addresses the key issues that afflict the poorest communities and, consequently, affects society at large: drugs, teenage pregnancy, murder of young people, unemployment and crime. But the book is not only the tragedies, and it is also another gap that novel. Cassiano tells his childhood poor, but happy, describing many moments of joy and entertainment to children. Narra also happy moments of his adolescence, as the festivities in your school, Lieutenant Ariston, the way a classic football, dating with Mary and the great friendship with the Knights of the Apocalypse, a group of 7 friends from childhood that remains attached to the death of some of them, when they take different directions in their lives. Ivone Lopes de Lana